bur‧y W3 / beri / 动词 ( past tense and past participle buried , present participle burying , third person singular buries ) [及物动词]

1 dead person to put someone who has died in a grave

bury somebody in/at etc something

He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s.

2 object to put something under the ground, often in order to hide it :

Electric cables are buried beneath the streets.

3 fall on something [通常被动态] to fall on top of someone or something, usually harming or destroying them

be buried under/beneath etc something

The skiers were buried under the snow.

Fifty-seven miners were buried alive .

4 hidden [通常被动态] to cover something so that it cannot be found :

His glasses were buried under a pile of papers.

5 feeling/memory to ignore a feeling or memory and pretend that it does not exist :

a deeply buried memory

6 bury your face/head etc (in something) to press your face etc into something soft :

Noel buried his face in the pillow.

7 bury your face/head in your hands to cover your face with your hands because you are very upset

8 bury your head in the sand to ignore an unpleasant situation and hope it will stop if you do not think about it

9 bury the hatchet/bury your differences to agree to stop arguing about something and become friends

10 in a surface to push something, especially something sharp, into something else with a lot of force

bury something in something

The dog buried its teeth in my leg.

The bullet buried itself in the wall.

11 bury yourself in your work/studies etc to give all your attention to something :

After the divorce, she buried herself in her work.

12 information to put information in a document in a place where it is unlikely to be noticed, or to not make it available to people :

The story was buried at the back of the paper.

13 loved one literary to have someone you love die :

She had buried her husband, two sons, and a daughter.

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