Antonyms for bury
ˈbɛr ibu·ry

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1. bury

   Hide is the general term, including all the rest, signifying to put out of sight or beyond ready observation or approach; a thing may be hidden by intention, by accident, or by the imperfection of the faculties of the one from whom it is hidden; in their games, children hide the slipper, or hide themselves from each other; a man unconsciously hides a picture from another by standing before it, or hides a thing from himself by laying something else over it. Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position. As an act of persons, to conceal is always intentional; one may hide his face in anger, grief, or abstraction; he conceals his face when he fears recognition. A house is hidden by foliage; the bird's nest is artfully concealed. Secrete is a stronger word than conceal, and is used chiefly of such material objects as may be separated from the person, or from their ordinary surroundings, and put in unlooked-for places; a man conceals a scar on his face, but does not secrete it; a thief secretes stolen goods; an officer may also be said to secrete himself to watch the thief. A thing is covered by putting something over or around it, whether by accident or design; it is screened by putting something before it, always with some purpose of protection from observation, inconvenience, attack, censure, etc. In the figurative use, a person may hide honorable feelings; he conceals an evil or hostile intent. Anything which is effectually covered and hidden under any mass or accumulation is buried. Money is buried in the ground; a body is buried in the sea; a paper is buried under other documents. Whatever is buried is hidden or concealed; but there are many ways of hiding or concealing a thing without burying it. So a person may be covered with wraps, and not buried under them. Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body. Figuratively, one may be said to be buried in business, in study, etc. Compare IMMERSE; PALLIATE.

   Antonyms:
   admit, advertise, avow, betray, confess, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, exhibit, exhume, expose, lay bare, lay open, make known, reveal, manifest, promulgate, publish, raise, show, tell, uncover, unmask, unveil

   Synonyms:
   cloak, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, entomb, hide, inter, mask, overwhelm, screen, secrete, suppress, veil

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1. bury

   Antonyms:
   disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate, publicate, aggravate

   Synonyms:
   inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel, entomb, compose, hush

Matched Categories

1. • Deposit
   • Enclose
   • Hide
   • Implant

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1. buryverb

   cover from sight

   "Afghani women buried under their burkas"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, swallow up, entomb, immerse, swallow, lay to rest, sink, inter, inhume, forget

2. bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to restverb

   place in a grave or tomb

   "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, swallow up, entomb, immerse, swallow, lay to rest, sink, inter, inhume, forget

3. buryverb

   place in the earth and cover with soil

   "They buried the stolen goods"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, swallow up, entomb, immerse, swallow, lay to rest, sink, inter, inhume, forget

4. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat upverb

   enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

   "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

   Synonyms:
   deplete, take back, exhaust, engross, get down, swallow, accept, withdraw, unsay, finish, engulf, inhume, eat up, entomb, live with, absorb, run through, forget, immerse, swallow up, sink, eat, consume, lay to rest, soak up, wipe out, polish off, steep, plunge, inter, use up

5. bury, sinkverb

   embed deeply

   "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"

   Synonyms:
   lapse, go down, swallow, slide down, drop down, go under, settle, eat up, entomb, sink, subside, immerse, swallow up, drop, dip, lay to rest, forget, slump, fall off, pass, inhume, inter

6. forget, buryverb

   dismiss from the mind; stop remembering

   "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, block, entomb, draw a blank, swallow, forget, lay to rest, swallow up, blank out, leave, inter, immerse, inhume, sink

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1. burynoun

   Antonyms:
   disinter, exhume

   Synonyms:
   inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher, hide, secrete, conceal, cache

How to use bury in a sentence?

1. Daniel Akbari:

   Since it is obligatory to bury a Muslim’s dead body, many Islamic institutions will probably be willing to do the burial, some might be cautious and wait to see if others do the job. But what is certain is that Farook and his wife will be buried in an Islamic way.

2. Stephen Henty:

   The 1970s were a bloodbath for the dairy industry, there was no market for calves so we were forced to shoot calves and bury them because they weren't worth anything.

3. Matt Daybell:

   Sad times are always when you have to bury babies. Thats always a poignant moment.

4. Shayona Lewis:

   You are never supposed to bury your child, $5,000 -- that’s all he had to pay to get out after I lost my son. He’s in the vicinity of my neighborhood, and you have calls saying they’ve seen him at McDonald’s. That’s something my son will never do again, so it’s disturbing.

5. Seve Ballesteros:

   I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you. ...................................................... On a golf course Seve has got everything. I mean everything: touch, power, know-how, courage and charisma.

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