[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bury \bur"y\, v. t. imp.  p. p. buried; p. pr.  vb. n.
   burying. oe. burien, birien, berien, as. byrgan; akin to
   beorgan to protect, ohg. bergan, g. bergen, icel. bjarga, sw.
   berga, dan. bierge, goth. ba'irgan. root95. cf.
   burrow.
   1. to cover out of sight, either by heaping something over,
      or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal
      by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury
      the face in the hands.
      1913 webster

            and all their confidence
            under the weight of mountains buried deep. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. specifically: to cover out of sight, as the body of a
      deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to
      deposit a corpse in its resting place, with funeral
      ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
      1913 webster

            lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
                                                  --matt. viii.
                                                  21.
      1913 webster

            i'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
      to bury strife.
      1913 webster

            give me a bowl of wine
            in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. --shak.
      1913 webster

   burying beetle zool., the general name of many species of
      beetles, of the tribe necrophaga; the sexton beetle; --
      so called from their habit of burying small dead animals
      by digging away the earth beneath them. the larvae feed
      upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers.

   to bury the hatchet, to lay aside the instruments of war,
      and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom
      observed by the north american indians, of burying a
      tomahawk when they conclude a peace.
      1913 webster

   syn: to intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
        overwhelm; repress.
        1913 webster burying ground
see also:
buried burying burrow burying beetle necrophaga to bury the hatchet 

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