Synonyms 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.

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

   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

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1. bury

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Matched Categories

1. • Deposit
   • Enclose
   • Hide
   • Implant

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1. buryverb

   Synonyms:
   cover (with earth, &c.), cover up

2. buryverb

   Synonyms:
   inter, inhume, entomb, inurn, lay in the grave, consign to the grave

3. buryverb

   Synonyms:
   hide, conceal, secrete, shroud

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1. burynoun

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

   Antonyms:
   disinter, exhume

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1. List of paraphrases for "bury":

   borj, buried, burial, buries, burying, hide, conceal, buri

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How to use bury in a sentence?

1. Sarah Sithole:

   I am an orphan now and I am so much in pain because I lost my brother who looked after me. He was more of a father to me, we will continue searching until we find him and bury him. We will not rest.

2. Hatice Cengiz:

   Jamal Khashoggi is a martyr for the struggle for democracy and freedom in our part of the world. I want to bury the body of my beloved Jamal -- Jamal Khashoggi -- surrounded by the prayers of his friends and loved ones. I want to know : Where is his body ? i believe that the Saudi regime knows where his body is... I want justice to be served. Not only for those who murdered my beloved Jamal, but for those who organized it and gave the order for it.

3. Rembert Walters:

   We're not going to move until this thing's over. It's going to wipe us out or kill us. Or bury us, or something, 'Cause we don't run every time this thing happened.

4. Jose Manuel Escudero:

   It's wrapped in more than 4 shrouds, one of which is quilted, you're not going to bury an ordinary person that way.

5. Hania Aguilar:

   This hurts, this is not a visa for sightseeing or staying in the country. I'm fine in my own country. I have work here. I only wanted a day or two to bury my daughter.