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Dictionary > Definition: bury

Definition of bury
  1. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
  2. place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods"
  3. embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
  4. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
  5. cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
  6. place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
Similar Words: forget, sink, immerse, swallow, swallow up, eat up, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

Hyponyms: unlearn, suppress, repress, set, countersink

Entailments: cover

Derivational Morphology: burying, burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture

Anagrams: ruby


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