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1. 1

   figuréTo ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. To kill or murder.

2. 2

   figuréTo ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. To outlive.

   Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!

3. 3

   To place in the ground.

   bury a bone; bury the embers

   Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.

4. 4

   figuréTo hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.

   She buried her face in the pillow, and I buried mine in my hands.

   The splinter has buried itself under the nail.

   The information I need is buried behind needless details.

   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.

5. 5

   figuréTo hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.

   vocals buried in the mix

6. 6

   figuréTo hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. To overwhelm.

   They buried us in paperwork.

   Beyond the daily firefighting, these managers and executives are overwhelmed in details and buried in administrative work

   We live in an age when people are buried with information and nobody knows anything

7. 7

   figuréTo suppress and hide away in one's mind.

   secrets kept buried

   She buried her shame and put on a smiling face.

8. 8

   figuréTo put an end to; to abandon.

   They buried their argument and shook hands.

   Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.

9. 9

   To score (a goal).

   You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.

10. 10

    argotTo ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.

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   obsolèteA burrow.

   Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.

   The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole.

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1. 1

   A borough; a manor

   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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