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bury

verb

1 bury

Cover from sight.

Roget 229: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround etc. 227; compass about; imprison etc. (restrain) 751; hedge in, ... show more

Dutch: bedelven

2 bury

Place in a grave or tomb.

synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest.

Roget 363: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; ... show more

Dutch: begraven

3 bury

Place in the earth and cover with soil.

Dutch: opgeven, begraven

4 bury

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing.

synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up.

Roget 300: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject etc. 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, ... show more

5 bury

Embed deeply.

synonym: sink.

Roget 528: conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up.    encrypt, encode, cipher.    cover, screen, cloak, veil, ... show more

6 bury

Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering:
— I tried to bury these unpleasant memories.

synonym: forget.

Dutch: vergeten


Moby thesaurus: abandon, baptize, bosom, bottle up, cache, coffin, conceal, conduct a funeral, consign to oblivion, cover up, deluge, deposit, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, embosom, encoffin, engulf ... show more.

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