BURY


Meaning of BURY in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

buried/hidden/sunken treasure

bury sb in a grave (= put someone in a grave )

She was buried in a grave next to her older sister.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

deep

These often have many icons buried deep inside.

If volatiles are acquired during accretion then most of the volatiles are initially buried deep in the planet.

It was soon ablaze, with the empty tin and rubber gloves buried deep in its midst.

The kitchens were buried deep in the structure, far from any outside wall.

Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.

After 50 years the waste will probably be buried deep underground.

He wanted to drown himself in her, to bury deep into the cells of her skin and to forget himself there.

Then it was done and the old man slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest.

here

Robert Browne - founder of the Congregational Church - is buried here .

They left Sakhalin with only one hope: to find their relatives and have their bones buried here .

There is a plaque on the wall to recall that all the Brokof family of sculptors are buried here .

This man was buried here in the fourth century.

Sorrow was buried here , at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer for the gravedigger.

there

He died in Bristol 24 September 1939 and is buried there .

According to a different version, Hsu Fu ended his days at Shingu and was buried there .

He came from Sheerness ... buried there ... I'd got him, you know?

He wants to be buried there .

She scraped the earth back and saw something very dark blue - china or glass, buried there .

All my family except Anne are buried there .

Sarah Helen was buried there 76 years ago, but today the locals are afraid she is coming back to terrorise them.

It was also claimed that his body, after his death, was brought from Jerusalem to Santiago and buried there .

■ NOUN

body

George decided to bury the girl's body in the gravel.

He buried the bodies in one grave with a single wooden cross as a marker; then notified the Commonwealth.

The refugees, having buried his body , are forced to move on.

She, her husband, and his brother were caught burying the bodies of Christians.

The arteries, much more rigid than veins and buried deeper in the body , are unaffected.

Steve has not been the same man since he whacked Saskia with an ashtray and buried her body in Epping Forest.

He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.

During the night he buried the body in the small back garden behind the shop.

cemetery

All the crew are buried at Stonefall cemetery , alongside many of their fellow countrymen.

Founded in 1979, the young community has only three other people buried in its cemetery .

But why weren't they buried in the cemetery after they were shot?

Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.

He will be buried at City Cemetery .

Nikulin was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery , alongside leading officials and artists.

Many of those who died at Moreton in Marsh are buried in the local cemetery .

The parklike preserve also is the site of a tiny cemetery where members of the Bridges family and several Yahgans are buried .

church

Trelawney himself is buried in Pelynt Church and the crozier carried in his funeral procession is also there on view.

It was my job to bury her in the church .

He was buried at the church of St Medard in Soissons.

He died 14 June 1835 and was buried in Dedham parish church , where there is a mural tablet to his memory.

May died 21 February 1684 and was buried in Mid Lavant church .

He died in 1792 and was buried in the church which he had built at Cromford.

To our surprise, she was not buried in the church with the Lintons, nor with the Earnshaws.

churchyard

They buried him in the churchyard here.

A few days later, George was buried in a Bergen churchyard .

Did I deserve to die, and be buried in the churchyard like my uncle Reed?

Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown, and there is a statue of him in the town's memorial park.

He was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard .

He died 12 March 1898 and was buried at Farnworth churchyard .

She was buried in the local churchyard .

difference

In recent weeks the two groups had buried their differences to stage joint armed protests across the country.

We must bury our differences and work together.

face

Then she struggled up, burying her face in his hand and her own.

In her bedroom she buried her face in the pillow while numerous sobs escaped her, shaking her slim body uncontrollably.

Suddenly he raced across the stage and buried his face behind the curtain.

With a sob, Theda flung her arms about his neck and buried her face in his shoulder.

I turned over and buried my face in the grass.

Sam Somerville screamed once, buried her face in Quinn's back and began to cry.

With a choked sob she brought the bear closer until she had buried her face in it.

family

In this case, Madeline Usher has been buried in the family vault below the house, supposedly dead.

Farm families usually bury their dead in family plots on their own land.

He is the first person to be buried in this family plot, which he has bought.

Blanche Arbuthnot was buried in the family plot at Naas.

He was buried in the family vault in St Peter's-in-the-East churchyard, Oxford.

Charles Longuet Higgins died in 1885 and was buried in the family vault at Turvey.

But his father wants them buried in a family plot in Santa Inez.

father

Next week she will bury her father in that uniform.

grave

Village residents stated that at least 100 people had been murdered and buried in mass graves in the area.

They then buried him in a grave that Phocas had prepared for himself during the night.

Those corpses, the ones he had buried in their makeshift grave under the old elm tree who were they?

Her body was found buried in a shallow grave in a grove two days after she was last seen with Thompson.

They were buried in mass graves , the corpses piled one on top of the other under a few inches of soil.

Hundreds of people were killed and buried in shallow graves beside the road.

But sadly, she may never be able to prove what killed the people buried in the mass graves .

ground

The giant who has been buried under the ground for hundreds of years.

They cart her down to the city burying ground , roll red clay into her eyes.

It can even be buried in the ground to prevent wetting the soil surface and encouraging weeds.

A great shell fell, buried itself in the ground , and exploded near where I stood.

It can be very difficult to be sure of why a hoard of objects was buried in the ground .

hatchet

Christmas looks to be a time for burying the hatchet or exhuming it for re-examination.

So much for burying the hatchet , he thinks.

After the race, the two men met and sensibly buried the hatchet .

Holly McPeak and Nancy Reno hope to bury the hatchet long enough to bring home the gold.

head

You will notice phrases like crocodile tears, the elephant never forgets, and the ostrich burying its head in the sand.

What is the good of having Rod Hull's Emu in the pulpit if he buries his head in the theological sands.

She righted herself almost immediately, flew into Mrs Saulitis's out-stretched arms and buried her head in her bosom.

In his room he fell on his bed, and buried his head in the pillow.

Flinging himself on the carpet, he buried his head wretchedly in the sofa cushions.

She buried her head in Florence's flank and groaned.

Suddenly all she wanted to do was get home and bury her head under her pillow.

sand

The sea wall ended, steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand .

Many wrasses bury themselves in the sand at night.

It is possible that the reactors will never be demolished, but will be buried in mounds of sand or gravel.

The seeds of Nuphar must be stored in cold surroundings, either covered with moss or buried in the sand .

Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand .

He was buried in the sand .

We just buried ourselves in the sand .

A solitary star plummeted downward to bury itself in the sand beside Alec's foot.

treasure

In fact he was digging for buried treasure .

Still, the movie fails to answer the big pirate question: Why are fictional pirates always burying their treasure ?

It could be a Roman or Saxon burial ground and they were buried with their treasures .

But the notion of buried treasure in Arizona is not crazy.

In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises, buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest.

■ VERB

die

Did I deserve to die , and be buried in the churchyard like my uncle Reed?

When she died , he buried her.

Philip died and was buried at Lydiard Constantine, near Swindon.

When bulls die , we bury them with one or both horns sticking up out of the ground.

In Bhachau, which was also obliterated, 78 girls died when they were buried inside their school building.

When I die , bury me by the river.

try

He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.

I tried to bury myself in work.

Such testimony, unheard of in El Salvador, is potentially explosive in a state that has tried to bury its past.

West was having a fit trying to bury Prophet Samuel.

For she, too, had her practical streak though now she tried to bury it.

The move comes amid accusations that Oleksy is trying to bury the matter.

Guilt made her try to bury it deep in her subconscious.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be dead and buried

Gregory converted it too and Northampton knew they were dead and buried.

The defensive concepts of prewar days were dead and buried.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He murdered his wife and buried her body in a field.

People may bury painful childhood memories to protect themselves.

Snakes usually bury their eggs.

Some of the phone lines are buried beneath the streets.

Tennessee buried Florida 45-3 in Saturday's game.

The dog buried one of my slippers in the backyard.

The hardest thing a mother can do is bury one of her children.

We hope to bury any speculation that there was a conspiracy.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although it had been buried without a coffin, it was found perfectly preserved.

Four other abandoned children whose final days had not been as comfortable were buried that same day.

Heberle confirms the mains will be buried between 36 inches and 44 inches deep.

It is an earthwork which appears to descend into the ground and is partially buried in the soil.

The arteries, much more rigid than veins and buried deeper in the body, are unaffected.

The refugees, having buried his body, are forced to move on.

Whitney, the high country is absolutely buried in the stuff.

Your relatives have to bury you in an envelope.

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