bury
verb/ˈberi/
/ˈberi/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bury | /ˈberi/ /ˈberi/ |
| he / she / it buries | /ˈberiz/ /ˈberiz/ |
| past simple buried | /ˈberid/ /ˈberid/ |
| past participle buried | /ˈberid/ /ˈberid/ |
| -ing form burying | /ˈberiɪŋ/ /ˈberiɪŋ/ |
- to place a dead body in the ground
- bury somebody/something They killed her and buried her body.
- bury somebody/something + adv./prep. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
- (figurative) Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsb1, Life stagesb1- The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.
- Those people are now all dead and buried.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryphrases- be dead and buried
- bury somebody alive
- lie buried
- …
- bury somebody (old-fashioned) to lose somebody by death
- She's 85 and has buried three husbands.
- to hide something in the ground
- bury something We used to dig for hours, looking for buried treasure.
- They plan to bury a time capsule containing work from every child in the school.
- bury something + adv./prep. The dog had buried its bone in the garden.
- The waste is buried deep underground.
Homophones berry | buryberry bury/ˈberi//ˈberi/- berry noun
- He picked a berry from the bush.
- bury verb
- They plan to bury a time capsule containing objects from the 2020s.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deep
- underground
- [often passive] to cover somebody/something with soil, rocks, leaves, etc.
- bury somebody/something A landslide buried about 25 people yesterday.
- bury somebody/something + adv./prep. The house was buried under ten feet of snow.
- Another vehicle was found buried under rubble.
- bury somebody/something + adj. The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.
Extra Examples- The building was now buried under ten feet of soil.
- He was buried up to his neck in the sand.
- a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- partially
- be buried alive
- buried beneath something
- buried under something
- …
- bury something (+ adv./prep.) to cover something so that it cannot be seen
- Your letter got buried under a pile of papers.
- He buried his face in his hands and wept.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- partially
- be buried alive
- buried beneath something
- buried under something
- …
- bury something to ignore or hide a feeling, a mistake, etc.
- She had learnt to bury her feelings.
Extra Examples- her deeply buried pain
- What secrets lie buried in the past?
- Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
- bury something (in something) to put something deeply into something else
- He walked slowly, his hands buried in his pockets.
- She always has her head buried in a book.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deep
- deeply
dead person
hide in ground
cover
hide feeling
put deeply into something
Word OriginOld English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough.
Idioms
See bury in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bury in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbury the hatchet | bury your differences
- to stop not being friendly and become friends again
- After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet.
bury/hide your head in the sand
- to refuse to admit that a problem exists or refuse to deal with it
bury the lede/lead (US English)
- to fail to emphasize the most important part of a story or account
- Unfortunately, he buried the lede in the last paragraph of the story.
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