Definitions for Bury

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Bury bur·y

Spelling: [ber-ee]

IPA: /ˈbɛr i/

Bury is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Bury (bruy).

Definitions for Bury

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 Bury

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 Bury

Also you will bury a bottle containing report of your proceedings.

He'd hide me somewhere outside the city, he'd bury alive the most lovely of women.

The landscape looks something like the marsh behind the Toys ‘R’ Us where Tony Soprano might bury a body in Jersey.

Then they intended to bury her, but she looked more alive than dead, and she still had such pretty red cheeks.

Shot a damn cock pheasant by mistake, and had to bury the thing in my own covers.

The dead or who would might bury the dead; he must go to the living!

The scene of them taking that young kid to Najaf to bury him is still in my mind.

Or s'pose he had it in mind to fill in that low land, so 't we could bury there!

Just days before, the officer told him, 19 bodies of Ebola victims were left lying outside with few men to bury them.

Us is me and Gus, driving our bus across the land; when we die, just bury us together, hand in hand.