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say it: BER-ee
bury is a verb meaning "cover from sight". It carries 6 recorded senses.
place in a grave or tomb
“Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square”
“The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids”
“My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday”
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
“The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bury come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.