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bury

See also: Bury and -bury

English

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Etymology 1

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Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *burgijan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, protect”).

Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”), Danish bjerge (“to save/rescue something or somebody”); also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ, “to spare”), Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).

The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.[1]

Verb

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bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle burying, simple 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
    • 2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky:
      Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.
  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.
    • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
      Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
    • 2017 June 29, Eugene Mark, “Time to Truly Understand Thailand’s 1932 Revolution”, in The Diplomat‎[1], Diplomat Media Inc., retrieved 2020-06-23:
      The Thai government has been trying to bury the memory of the revolution that gave birth to democracy in Thailand.
  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.
  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 (music production)
  9. (transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.
    Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!
  10. (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
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Noun

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bury (plural buries)

  1. (obsolete) A burrow.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Upward, Christopher & George Davidson. 2011. The History of English Spelling. Wiley-Blackwell.
  2. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “bury”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes I (A–O), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 190/687.

Etymology 2

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See borough.

Noun

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bury (plural buries)

  1. A borough; a manor
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
      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
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Polish

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Etymology 1

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Probably a post-Mongol invasion Turkic borrowing via Ukrainian бу́рий (búryj). Compare Russian бу́рый (búryj).

Adjective

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bury (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. brownish dark grey
  2. dark grey with spots
Declension
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Declension of bury (hard)
singular plural
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter virile (= masculine personal) non-virile
nominative bury bura bure burzy bure
genitive burego burej burego burych
dative buremu burej buremu burym
accusative burego bury burą bure burych bure
instrumental burym burą burym burymi
locative burym burej burym burych
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Noun

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bury m animal

  1. (nominalized, regional) bear (ursid)
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Declension of bury
singular plural
nominative bury burzy
genitive burego burych
dative buremu burym
accusative burego burych
instrumental burym burymi
locative burym burych
vocative bury burzy

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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bury f

  1. inflection of bura:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

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  • bury in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bury in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Etymology

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From English bury. Replacing native form bery.

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Verb

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bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle buryin, simple past buriet, past participle buriet)

  1. (transitive) to bury
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