Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
- 2noun
A manor house; a castle.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
- 6verb
dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
"I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
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- 7verb
place in the earth and cover with soil
"They buried the stolen goods"
- 8verb
embed deeply
"She sank her fingers into the soft sand"
"He buried his head in her lap"
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- 9verb
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- 10verb
cover from sight
"Afghani women buried under their burkas"
- 11verb
place in a grave or tomb
"Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"
"The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"
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