bury
bury is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
- noun. A manor house; a castle.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
- verb. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
"I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
- verb. place in the earth and cover with soil
"They buried the stolen goods"
- verb. embed deeply
"She sank her fingers into the soft sand"
"He buried his head in her lap"
- verb. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- verb. cover from sight
"Afghani women buried under their burkas"
- verb. place in a grave or tomb
"Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"
"The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"
Synonyms
forget, sink, immerse, swallow, entomb, inhume, inter
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bury:
Common word forms
burys, buried, burier, buries, burying
Words from these letters
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