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bury

English

  1. 🔊 place in the earth and cover with soil
    “They buried the stolen goods”
  2. 🔊 embed deeply
    “She sank her fingers into the soft sand”
  3. 🔊 cover from sight
    “Afghani women buried under their burkas”
  4. 🔊 place in a grave or tomb
    “Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square”
  5. 🔊 dismiss from the mind
    “I tried to bury these unpleasant memories”
  6. 🔊 enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
    “The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sepultar to bury
  2. 🔊 inhumar to bury, to inter

Similar words

forget sink immerse swallow swallow up eat up entomb inhume inter lay to rest abandon baptize bosom bottle up cache coffin conceal conduct a funeral consign to oblivion cover up deluge deposit dip douse