English dictionary

bury

/'b/E/r/i/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

cover from sight

verb.perception

Source: WordNet 3.0
place in a grave or tomb

verb.social

Synonyms entomb inhume inter lay to rest

Source: WordNet 3.0
place in the earth and cover with soil

verb.contact

Source: WordNet 3.0
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

verb.contact

Synonyms eat up immerse swallow swallow up

Source: WordNet 3.0
embed deeply

verb.contact

Synonyms sink

Source: WordNet 3.0
dismiss from the mind; stop remembering

verb.cognition

Examples
I tried to bury these unpleasant memories.

Synonyms forget

Antonyms remember think of

Source: WordNet 3.0
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.

verb

Source: webster1913