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bury [ber-ee] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
bury [ber-ee]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lay to rest after death
Synonyms: consign to grave, cover up, deposit, embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hold last rites for, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inter, inurn, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away, put six feet under, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb
Notes: a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground
Antonyms: dig out, disinter, uncover
Main Entry: bury
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plant in ground
Synonyms: drive in, embed, engulf, implant, sink, submerge
Antonyms: dig out
Main Entry: bury
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: engross oneself
Synonyms: absorb, concentrate, engage, immerse, interest, occupy, rivet, throw oneself into
Example Sentences
  • If the webmaster doesn't agree to have the negative content removed, your next best option is to bury it.
  • Hayes, says that a corporate sponsor tried to bury his unwelcome research findings and then buy his silence.
  • To claim that the new study is in any way shocking, be that to praise it or to bury it, is simply ridiculous.
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Main Entry: blanket
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cover
Synonyms: bury, cloak, cloud, coat, conceal, crown, eclipse, envelop, hide, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, suppress, surround
Antonyms: lay bare, uncover
Main Entry: cache
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hide a supply of something
Synonyms: accumulate, bury, conceal, cover, ditch, duck, ensconce, lay away, maintain, park, plant, put away, put in the hole, save, screen, secrete, squirrel, squirrel away, stash, stash away, store
Main Entry: conceal
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hide, disguise
Synonyms: beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch, cover, cover up, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up, keep dark, keep secret, lie low, lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, plant*, put in a hole, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk, slink, sneak, stash, stay out of sight, stow, tuck away, veil, wrap
Antonyms: disclose, divulge, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover
Main Entry: cover
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wrap, hide
Synonyms: blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil
Antonyms: lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap
Main Entry: defeat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: frustrate
Synonyms: baffle, balk, beat down, beat the system, blank, block, bury, cast down, cause setback, checkmate, circumvent, confound, contravene, cook*, counterplot, cross, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, disprove, edge out, foil, invalidate, neutralize, nonplus, nose out, nullify, outwit, overturn, put end to, puzzle, quell, reduce, refute, ruin, scuttle, shave, shellac, skunk, spoil, squash, stump, subdue, subjugate, surmount, take wind out of sails, throw for loop, thwart, undo, victimize
Notes: decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat
Antonyms: abet, aid, encourage, help, inspirit
Main Entry: embed
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sink, implant
Synonyms: bury, deposit, dig in, drive in, enclose, fasten, fix, hammer in, impact, infix, ingrain, inlay, insert, install, lodge, pierce, plant, plunge, press, put into, ram in, root, set, stick in, stuff in, thrust in, tuck in
Antonyms: dig up
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