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[ verb ] cover from sight
Examples "Afghani women buried under their burkas" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Aggie might fly into a closet , shut the door and bury her head in the clothes ; he dared to wait for the lightning . (Francis Pollini, Night....)Cover the whole building , bury us all , by nightfall . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Snow buried the streets and covered the slanting rooftops , as John trudged toward St._Peter 's . Related terms |
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[ verb ] place in a grave or tomb
Synonyms Examples "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square" "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids" "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" Used in print ("Editorials"...)The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster , and the rest of the body was buried under the gallows . There is Karl_Marx , of_course , buried in London . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot . |
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[ verb ] place in the earth and cover with soil
Examples "They buried the stolen goods" Used in print (Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine_Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco_Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway , over which travel each_day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop . (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)`` Bury those uniforms so they won n't be found '' . |
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[ verb ] enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Synonyms Examples "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" Used in print But de Gaulle is buried in the cause of restoring France 's lost soul . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 14388
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