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Bury

verb

(past & past part. buried; pres. part. burying)

Cover from sight.

Place in a grave or tomb. Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest. "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids" , "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"

Place in the earth and cover with soil.

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up.

Embed deeply. Synonym: sink. "He buried his head in her lap"

Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering. Synonym: forget.

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"Bury" Quotes from Famous Books

... Establish perfect safety and defence there by adequate force. Let every man that sleeps on your soil sleep in security. Stop the blood that flows from the veins of unarmed yeomanry and women and children. Give to the living time to bury and lament their dead in the quietness of private sorrow. Having performed this work of beneficence and mercy on your inland border, turn, and look with the eye of justice and compassion on your vast population along the coast. Unclench ...

— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge

... Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein, dead of the plague, which was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed anybody to bury it; but only set a watch there all day and night, that nobody should go thither or come thence, this disease making us more cruel to one another than ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various

... have produced, there is one alone which I have not given to the flames; for it alone is complete. In that you will find me entire, and there LIES THE TRUTH. And, as the sage has said you must not bury your treasures in a well, I will not confide mine to the brutal stupidity of these monks. But as this volume should only pass into hands worthy to touch it, and be laid open for eyes that are capable of comprehending its mysteries, I shall exact from the reader one condition, ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... those who had turned back, the Plataeans applied for a truce to bury their dead; and when their herald came back from his useless errand, they learned to their delight that this gallant enterprise, so ably planned, and so boldly executed, had ...

— Stories From Thucydides • H. L. Havell

... duty it was to follow the line of battle and bury our dead soldiers tell us that in the dying hour the soldier's hand unclasped his weapon and reached for the inner pocket to touch some faded letter; some little keepsake, some likeness of wife or mother. This pathetic fact tells ...

— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis

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