BURY


Meaning of BURY in English

verb

1 dead person

PHRASES

▪ be dead and buried

Those people are now all dead and buried.

Their ambitions were finally dead and buried. ( figurative )

▪ ~ sb alive , lie buried , remain buried ( often figurative )

The king lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.

What secrets lie buried in the past?

2 hide in the ground

ADVERB

▪ deep

▪ underground

The waste is buried deep underground.

3 cover

ADVERB

▪ completely

a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass

▪ partially

PHRASES

▪ be buried alive

The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.

▪ buried beneath sth , buried under sth

The building was now buried under ten feet of soil.

Your letter got buried under a pile of papers.

▪ be buried up to your chin in sth , be buried up to your neck in sth , etc.

He was buried up to his neck in sand.

4 put sth deeply into sth

ADVERB

▪ deep , deeply

He slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest.

her deeply buried pain ( figurative )

Bury is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ ash , ↑ body , ↑ egg , ↑ face , ↑ father , ↑ feeling , ↑ head , ↑ memory , ↑ mine , ↑ myth , ↑ news , ↑ remains , ↑ treasure , ↑ victim , ↑ waste

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .