buried








verb (used with object), bur·ied, bur·y·ing.

  1. to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
  2. to put (a corpse) in the ground or a vault, or into the sea, often with ceremony: They buried the sailor with full military honors.
  3. to plunge in deeply; cause to sink in: to bury an arrow in a target.
  4. to cover in order to conceal from sight: She buried the card in the deck.
  5. to immerse (oneself): He buried himself in his work.
  6. to put out of one’s mind: to bury an insult.
  7. to consign to obscurity; cause to appear insignificant by assigning to an unimportant location, position, etc.: Her name was buried in small print at the end of the book.

noun, plural bur·ies.

  1. Nautical. housing1(def 8a, b).
Idioms
  1. bury one’s head in the sand, to avoid reality; ignore the facts of a situation: You cannot continue to bury your head in the sand—you must learn to face facts.
  2. bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited.

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester: an early textile centre. Pop: 60 178 (2001)
  2. a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 181 900 (2003 est). Area: 99 sq km (38 sq miles)

verb buries, burying or buried (tr)

  1. to place (a corpse) in a grave, usually with funeral rites; inter
  2. to place in the earth and cover with soil
  3. to lose through death
  4. to cover from sight; hide
  5. to embed; sinkto bury a nail in plaster
  6. to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; engrossto be buried in a book
  7. to dismiss from the mind; abandonto bury old hatreds
  8. bury the hatchet to cease hostilities and become reconciled
  9. bury one’s head in the sand to refuse to face a problem
v.

Old English byrgan “to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter,” akin to beorgan “to shelter,” from Proto-Germanic *burzjan- “protection, shelter” (cf. Old Saxon bergan, Dutch bergen, Old Norse bjarga, Swedish berga, Old High German bergan “protect, shelter, conceal,” German bergen, Gothic bairgan “to save, preserve”), from PIE root *bhergh- “protect, preserve” (cf. Old Church Slavonic brego “I preserve, guard”). Related: Buried; burying. Burying-ground “cemetery” attested from 1711.

The Old English -y- was a short “oo” sound, like modern French -u-. Under normal circumstances it transformed into Modern English -i- (e.g. bridge, kiss, listen, sister), but in bury and a few other words (e.g. merry, knell) it retained a Kentish change to “e” that took place in the late Old English period. In the West Midlands, meanwhile, the Old English -y- sound persisted, slightly modified over time, giving the standard modern pronunciation of blush, much, church.

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