bury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕr'ē
rhymes: -ɛɹi
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: (Mary–marry–merry merger) Barry
homophone: beary
ipa: /ˈbɛ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbe.ɹiː/
enpr: bû'rē
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
ipa: /ˈbɜː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɚ.i/
enpr: bŭ'rē
rhymes: -ʌɹi
ipa: /ˈbʌ.ɹi/
note: Middlesbrough, Lancashire, Yorkshire
ipa: /ˈbʊ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbə.ri/
enpr: bâr'ē
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: beary
ipa: /ˈbeəɹiː/
Forms: form: buries
form: burying
form: buried
form: buried
Etymology: Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *burgijan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, protect”).
Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”), Danish bjerge (“to save/rescue something or somebody”); also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ, “to spare”), Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).
The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.
Senses: glosses: To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
To kill or murder.
examples: text: Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!
glosses: To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
To outlive.
examples: text: bury a bone; bury the embers
text: Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.
ref: 2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky:
glosses: To place in the ground.
examples: text: She buried her face in the pillow, and I buried mine in my hands.
text: The splinter has buried itself under the nail.
text: The information I need is buried behind needless details.
text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
text: The Thai government has been trying to bury the memory of the revolution that gave birth to democracy in Thailand.
ref: 2017 June 29, Eugene Mark, “Time to Truly Understand Thailand’s 1932 Revolution”, in The Diplomat, Diplomat Media Inc., retrieved 23 Jun 2020:
glosses: To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
examples: raw_tags: music production
text: vocals buried in the mix
glosses: To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
examples: text: They buried us in paperwork.
text: Beyond the daily firefighting, these managers and executives are overwhelmed in details and buried in administrative work
ref: 2013 November 17, Mike Weinberg, “Are You Moving the Needle on High Payoff Activity or Drowning in Details & Admin?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: We live in an age when people are buried with information and nobody knows anything
ref: 2014 April 25, Kelly Egan, “Egan: All the information, but far too few answers”, in Ottawa Citizen:
glosses: To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
To overwhelm.
examples: text: secrets kept buried
text: She buried her shame and put on a smiling face.
glosses: To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
examples: text: They buried their argument and shook hands.
text: Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To put an end to; to abandon.
examples: text: You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.
ref: 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score (a goal).
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
Derived terms: bebury
buriable
burial
burier
buryable
burying beetle
bury one's head in the sand
bury the hatchet
bury the lead
bury the lede
bury your gays
carry me out and bury me decently
know where the bodies are buried
rebury
the box they're going to bury it in
unbury
underbury
Related terms: burian