• (British, America) enPR: bĕ'-ri, IPA: /ˈbɛ.ɹi/, /ˈbɜ.ɹi/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈbʌ.ɹi/ (also used by some outside Scotland)
• (Middlesbrough) IPA: /ˈbʊ.ɹi/

bury (buries, present participle burying; 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, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [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

• burian

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

• 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#Noun|burrow.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:

     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.

bury (plural buries)

1. 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

• IPA: /ˈbɛɹi/

1. A town/and/metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England.