bury
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: bĕ'-ri, IPA: /ˈbɛ.ɹi/, X-SAMPA: /"bE.r\i/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛri
- Homophone: berry
- Rhymes: -ɛɹi
Etymology 1
Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (cf. Old Norse byrgja ‘to close’), from *berganą (“to protect, shelter”) (cf. Old English beorgan, West Frisian bergje ‘to keep’, German bergen ‘to save/rescue something’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerĝʰ, *bʰr̥ĝʰ (cf. Albanian mburojë (“shield”), Lithuanian (Eastern) bir̃ginti ‘to save, spare’, Russian беречь (bereč') ‘to spare’, Ossetian æмбæрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).
Verb
bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle burying, simple past and past participle buried) (transitive)
- To ritualistically inter a corpse in a grave or tomb. (see burial)
- To place in the ground. "bury a bone"
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside"
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon. "They buried their argument and shook hands"
- (figuratively) To score a goal
- 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, BBC:
- You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.
- 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, BBC:
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Etymology 2
See borough.
Noun
bury (plural buries)
- A borough; a manor
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
- Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
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Scots
Etymology
From English bury. Replacing native form bery.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /bʌri/
Verb
tae bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle buryin, simple past buriet, past participle buriet)
- (transitive) to bury