bury

See also: Bury and -bury

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: bĕ'-ri, IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.ɹi/, /ˈbɜ.ɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛri Rhymes: -ɛɹi
• Homophone: berry
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.ɹi/ (also used by some outside Scotland)
• (Middlesbrough) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊ.ɹi/

Etymology 1

Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (compare Old Norse byrgja (“to close”)), from *berganą (“to protect, shelter”) (compare Old English beorgan, West Frisian bergje ‘to keep’, German bergen ‘to save/rescue something’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, preserve, protect, save, take care of”), *bʰr̥ĝʰ (compare Albanian mburojë (“shield”), Lithuanian (Eastern) bir̃ginti ‘to save, spare’, Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ) ‘to spare’, Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”). The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.. Related to bergh.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
2. (transitive) To place in the ground.

   bury a bone;  bury the embers

3. (transitive, often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

   she buried her face in the pillow;  they buried us in paperwork

4. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.

   secrets kept buried; she buried her shame and put on a smiling face.

5. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.

   They buried their argument and shook hands.

   • Shakespeare

     Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
   • 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC:

     You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.

7. (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bebury
• burial

• bury the hatchet
• know where the bodies are buried

• unbury

Related terms

• burian

Translations

inter a corpse in a grave or tomb

• Afrikaans: begrawe (af)
• Arabic: دَفَنَ‎‎ (ar) (dafana)
• Aromanian: ngrop, murmintedz, ngrupiljedz
• Assamese: পোতা (püta), কবৰ দিয়া (kobor dia)
• Breton: beziañ (br), douarañ (br)
• Bulgarian: погребвам (bg) (pogrebvam)
• Catalan: enterrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埋葬 (zh) (máizàng), 埋 (zh) (mái)

• Czech: pohřbít
• Danish: begrave
• Dutch: begraven (nl)
• Esperanto: enterigi
• Faroese: jarða
• Finnish: haudata (fi)
• French: enterrer (fr), ensevelir (fr)
• Galician: enterrar (gl), soterrar (gl)
• Georgian: დამარხვა (damarxva), დაკრძალვა (daḳrʒalva)
• German: beerdigen (de), begraben (de)
• Greek: θάβω (el) (thávo), ενταφιάζω (el) (entafiázo)

  Ancient Greek: θάπτω (tháptō)

• Hiligaynon: lubong
• Irish: cuir (ga), cuir (ga) san uaigh; adhlaic

• Italian: seppellire (it), inumare (it), sotterrare (it)
• Japanese: 葬る (hōmuru), 埋葬する (ja) (maisō suru)
• Latin: sepeliō, tumulō
• Low German:

  German Low German: begrawen (nds) (Münsterland, Vest Recklinghausen)

• Ngazidja Comorian: udziha
• Norman: entèrrer
• North Frisian: begreew (Föhr)
• Novial: sepulte
• Polish: chować (pl) impf, pochować (pl) pf, grzebać (pl) impf, pogrzebać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: enterrar (pt)
• Quechua: p'ampay
• Romanian: îngropa (ro), înmormânta (ro), înhuma (ro) (literary)
• Russian: хорони́ть (ru) impf (xoronítʹ), похорони́ть (ru) pf (poxoronítʹ)
• Spanish: enterrar (es), dar sepultura (es)
• Swedish: begrava (sv)
• Tagalog: libing (tl)
• Turkish: defnetmek (tr), gömmek (tr)
• Vietnamese: chôn (vi), mai táng (vi)
• Volapük: sepülön (vo)
• Welsh: claddu (cy)
• Yiddish: באַגראָבן‎‎ (bagrobn)

place in the ground

• Aromanian: ngrop, ngrupiljedz
• Assamese: পোতা (püta)
• Bulgarian: заравям (bg) (zaravjam)
• Catalan: enterrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掩埋 (zh) (yǎnmái), 埋藏 (zh) (máicáng)

• Dutch: begraven (nl)
• Finnish: haudata (fi), kaivaa maahan
• French: enterrer (fr)
• Galician: soterrar (gl)
• Georgian: დამარხვა (damarxva)
• German: vergraben (de), eingraben (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: θάπτω (tháptō)

• Italian: sotterrare (it)
• Japanese: 埋める (ja) (umeru)
• Latin: dēfodiō, īnfodiō
• Norman: entèrrer
• Portuguese: enterrar (pt), soterrar
• Quechua: p'ampay, p'ampachay
• Romanian: îngropa (ro)
• Russian: зарыва́ть (ru) impf (zaryvátʹ), зары́ть (ru) pf (zarýtʹ); зака́пывать (ru) impf (zakápyvatʹ), закопа́ть (ru) pf (zakopátʹ)
• Spanish: enterrar (es)
• Swedish: begrava (sv), gräva ner/gräva ned
• Turkish: gömmek (tr)

hide or conceal as if by covering with earth

• Bulgarian: затрупвам (bg) (zatrupvam)
• Catalan: enterrar (ca)
• Dutch: begraven (nl)
• Finnish: haudata (fi), piilottaa (fi), kätkeä (fi)
• French: enterrer (fr)
• Galician: soterrar (gl)
• German: vergraben (de)
• Italian: sotterrare (it), nascondere (it), sprofondare (it)
• Latin: dēfodiō

• Malay: tanam
• Norman: entèrrer
• Polish: zakopywać (pl) impf, zakopać pf
• Portuguese: enterrar (pt)
• Quechua: p'ampakuy
• Russian: пря́тать (ru) impf (prjátatʹ), спря́тать (ru) pf (sprjátatʹ)
• Swedish: begrava (sv), gömma (sv)
• Turkish: saklamak (tr)

to put an end to; to abandon

• Dutch: begraven (nl), opgeven (nl)
• Finnish: haudata (fi)
• German: begraben (de)
• Italian: seppellire (it), dimenticare (it), mettere una pietra sopra

• Portuguese: esquecer (pt)
• Swedish: glömma (sv)
• Turkish: gömmek (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} begrawe (af)

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} לקבור‎‎ (liqbor) (1); ^{(please verify)} להטמין‎‎ (le'hat'myn) (2)

Noun

bury (plural buries)

1. (obsolete) A burrow.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 071:

     Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

Etymology 2

See borough.

Noun

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

Anagrams

• Ruby, ruby

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Polish

Etymology

Possibly Latin burrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.rɨ/

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Adjective

bury m

1. brownish dark grey
2. dark grey with spots

Declension

declension of bury

case	singular				plural
	m pers, m anim	m inan	n	f	m pers	other
nominative, vocative	bury		bure	bura	burzy	bure
genitive	burego			burej	burych
dative	buremu				burym
accusative	burego	bury	bure	burą	burych	bure
instrumental	burym				burymi
locative				burej	burych

Related terms

• (prefix) buro-
• (adverb) buro
• (adjective) burawy
• (nouns) burek, burość

Noun

bury m anim

1. (regional) bear (ursid)

Further reading

• bury in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Scots

Etymology

From English bury. Replacing native form bery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌri/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to bury