Definitions for buries

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buries bur·y

Spelling: [ber-ee]

IPA: /ˈbɛr i/

Buries is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in buries (beirsu).

Definitions for buries

noun

1. Nautical. housing1 (def 8a, b).

Idioms

1. bury one's head in the sand, to avoid reality; ignore the facts of a situation:
2. bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited.

verb (used with object)

1. to put in the ground and cover with earth:
2. to put (a corpse) in the ground or a vault, or into the sea, often with ceremony:
3. to plunge in deeply; cause to sink in:
4. to cover in order to conceal from sight:
5. to immerse (oneself):
6. to put out of one's mind:
7. to consign to obscurity; cause to appear insignificant by assigning to an unimportant location, position, etc.:

Origin of buries

before 1000; Middle English berien, buryen, Old English byrgan to bury, conceal; akin to Old English beorgan to hide, protect, preserve; cognate with Dutch, German bergen, Gothic bairgan, Old

Examples for buries

If the price is great, think of the misery that it buys—and buries.

Eric Dezenhall reports on how the media unfairly jumps to attack companies—and then buries the news when the truth comes out.

In a few contemptuous pages Godwin buries the social contract.

He fends her off and, instead, she buries the blade in her own stomach.

She buries her brother, even though this act of defiance will assure her doom.

It is the oubliette in which the Staphilinus buries the remains of his victims.

It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment!

And it has its unpleasant side—it buries me under a mountain of obligation.

This modern autocrat suckles from your own breast and buries you beneath a mountain of sullied nappies.

Mike loves “mudding” and buries all kinds of vehicles up to their axles in the big open fields around Dryden.