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bury has 10 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
cover from sight
“Afghani women buried under their burkas”
place in a grave or tomb
“Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square”
place in the earth and cover with soil
“They buried the stolen goods”
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
“The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for bury come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.