burying Definition

bury
verb buries, buried, burying

1. To place (a dead body) in a grave, the sea, etc.

Thesaurus: inter, conceal, cover, embed, enclose, entomb, inhume, lay to rest, sepulchre, shroud, sink, submerge.
2. To hide something in the ground.
3. To put something out of sight; to cover.

Example: bury one's face in one's hands
4. To put something out of one's mind or memory; to blot out.

Example: Let's bury our differences
5. To lose (a close relative) by death.

Example: She has already buried three husbands

Idiom: bury the hatchet

To stop quarrelling and become friends again. &clock; 18c: in Native American tradition, when the chiefs met to smoke the peace pipe

Idiom: bury one's head in the sand

To refuse to think about or accept some unpleasant or unwelcome fact.

Etymology: 19c: from the old belief that the ostrich reacted to danger by burying its head in the sand, apparently thinking that if it could not see it could not be seen. &clock; Anglo-Saxon byrgan.

Phrasal Verb: bury oneself in something

To occupy oneself completely with it.