Definition of Bury

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Definition of Bury

Bury

A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's

A manor house; a castle.

To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.

Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.

To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.

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Bury Quotations

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Bobby Knight

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Nikita Khrushchev

Bury Translations

bury in Danish is begrave
bury in Dutch is kuilen, begraven
bury in French is enterrez, enterrer, enterrent, enterrons
bury in German is begraben, verbergen, begraben
bury in Latin is sepelio, humo, tego texi tectum, effero
bury in Norwegian is begrave
bury in Portuguese is enterro
bury in Spanish is enterrar

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