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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bury \Bur"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buried}; p. pr & vb n. {Burying}.] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS byrgan akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga Sw berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. ba['i]rgan. [root]95. Cf {Burrow}.] 1. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over or by placing within something as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton. 2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. --Matt. viii. 21. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak. 3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak. {Burying beetle} (Zo["o]l.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe {Necrophaga}; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them The larv[ae] feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers. {To bury the hatchet}, to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace. Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: burying n : concealing something under the ground [syn: {burial}]
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