• • (British) IPA: /ˈbɛɹ.i/, /ˈbɜː.ɹi/
    • (Scotland) IPA: /ˈbʌ.ɹi/ (also used by some outside Scotland)
    • (Middlesbrough, Lancashire) IPA: /ˈbʊ.ɹi/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈbɛɹ.i/, /ˈbɚ.i/
• (New Zealand) enPR: bĕr'ē, bâr'ē IPA: /ˈbeɹiː/, /ˈbeəɹiː/

Cognate with Icelandic byrgja; Western Frisian bergje, German bergen, Danish bjerge; also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti, Russian бере́чь, Ossetic ӕмбӕрзын.

The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.

bury (buries, present participle burying; simple past and past participle buried)

1. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
2. (transitive) To place in the ground.

   bury a bone;  bury the embers

3. (transitive, often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.

   she buried her face in the pillow;  they buried us in paperwork

4. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.

   secrets kept buried; she buried her shame and put on a smiling face.

5. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.

   They buried their argument and shook hands.

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
7. (transitive, figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
8. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.

   vocals buried in the mix

9. (transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.

   Grandpa's still in excellent health. He'll bury us all!

10. (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.

• burian

• French: enterrer, ensevelir
• German: beerdigen, begraben
• Italian: seppellire, inumare, sotterrare
• Portuguese: enterrar, sepultar, inumar
• Russian: хорони́ть
• Spanish: enterrar, dar sepultura, sepultar

• French: enterrer
• German: vergraben, eingraben
• Italian: sotterrare
• Portuguese: enterrar, soterrar
• Russian: зарыва́ть
• Spanish: enterrar

• French: enterrer
• German: vergraben
• Italian: sotterrare, nascondere, sprofondare
• Portuguese: enterrar
• Russian: пря́тать

• German: begraben
• Italian: seppellire, dimenticare, mettere una pietra sopra
• Portuguese: esquecer

bury (plural buries)

1. (obsolete) A burrow.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC ↗:

     Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.

See borough.

bury (plural buries)

1. A borough; a manor
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC ↗, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     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

The place name means "fort," from Old English burg.

• IPA: /ˈbɛɹi/

1. A place in England:
   1. A village/and/cpar in Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
   2. A town/and/metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester.
   3. A hamlet in Brompton Regis, Somerset West and Taunton (OS grid ref SS9427).
   4. A village/and/cpar in Chichester (OS grid ref TQ0113).
   5. Short for Bury St Edmunds.
2. A village in Péruwelz, Hainaut.
3. A commune in Oise.
4. A mun in Le Haut-Saint-François.
5. Surname.