1
as in to inter
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday
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2
as in to conceal
to put into a hiding place
buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident
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3
as in to overcome
to defeat by a large margin
if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us
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Recent Examples of bury
He is buried next to his father, who died when Sessions was 8 years old.
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
As the lore goes, King’s daughter’s cat was struck by a truck and buried on a hill behind the house, inspiring the plot for his 1983 novel Pet Sematary.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
In the Balkans and Turkey, some traditional recipes called for dropping ants into warm milk, covering it with cheesecloth, and burying the whole thing in an ant mound overnight.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Then, weeks after they were buried, the soft parts of the carcasses decayed and were washed away by groundwater, leaving the clay mask to forever preserve the forms of what lay just beneath, Sereno says.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
As the lore goes, King’s daughter’s cat was struck by a truck and buried on a hill behind the house, inspiring the plot for his 1983 novel Pet Sematary.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
In the Balkans and Turkey, some traditional recipes called for dropping ants into warm milk, covering it with cheesecloth, and burying the whole thing in an ant mound overnight.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Then, weeks after they were buried, the soft parts of the carcasses decayed and were washed away by groundwater, leaving the clay mask to forever preserve the forms of what lay just beneath, Sereno says.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bury
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The Odd Fellows Cemetery, where Sammy is interred, is the last such cemetery in Sacramento.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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She was later interred at Fairview Cemetery.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Though the structures appear to only be heads, many of them have full bodies that have been concealed by sediment over the centuries.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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Thick and fast-growing, the greenery conceals a chain-link fence that helps with crowd control between the stands and field.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
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How Tielemans overcame early toils is often used as a source of encouragement by new additions who seem peripheral at first.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Her mission is to be an example of overcoming adversity, reminding the world that true success comes from working with love, respect, and shining without dimming the light of others.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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Viruses, as well as small bits of vegetation and invasive zebra mussel larvae, can hide in the plumbing of your rig.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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And don’t spend the evening apologizing or hiding in the kitchen.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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When laundry day rolls around, simply throw the durable topper in the laundry with the rest of your bedding for easy maintenance and tumble dry with no heat.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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And to be thrown into now this separation and exploding, blowing up her family this way.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct. 2025
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When state troopers executed a search warrant at a motel where Zajko was staying, law enforcement found LaSota hiding in the bathroom of another room, laying still on the floor, his eyes closed, almost catatonic.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Oct. 2025
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Mayorga laid the groundwork for the Ecuadorian cumbia sound and musicians like Medardo Luzuriaga, who transformed the genre into a national sensation.—
NPR,
NPR,
20 Oct. 2025
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Invasive plants like giant salvinia can completely smother the shallow portions of lakes, choking out all life and blocking user access.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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Over time, it was smothered by sand brought in to replenish the beach.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.—
Peter Hessler,
The New Yorker,
26 June 2023
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“Bury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bury. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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