bury

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Etymology 1 [edit]

Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (cf. Old Norse byrgja ‘to close’), from *berganą (“to protect, shelter”) (cf. Old English beorgan, West Frisian bergje ‘to keep’, German bergen ‘to save/rescue something’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerĝʰ, *bʰr̥ĝʰ (cf. Albanian mburojë (“shield”), Lithuanian (Eastern) bir̃ginti ‘to save, spare’, Russian беречь (bereč') ‘to spare’, Ossetian æмбæрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).

Verb [edit]

bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle burying, simple past and past participle buried) (transitive)

  1. To ritualistically inter a corpse in a grave or tomb. (see burial)
  2. To place in the ground. "bury a bone"
  3. To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside"
  4. (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon. "They buried their argument and shook hands"
  5. (figuratively) To score a goal
    • 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, BBC:
      You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.
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Translations [edit]
inter a corpse in a grave or tomb
place in the ground
hide or conceal as if by covering with earth
to put an end to; to abandon
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Etymology 2 [edit]

See borough.

Noun [edit]

bury (plural buries)

  1. A borough; a manor
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
      Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic

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Etymology [edit]

From English bury. Replacing native form bery.

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

tae bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle buryin, simple past buriet, past participle buriet)

  1. (transitive) to bury
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