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burying
[ber-ee] 
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bury
[ber-ee]
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| 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: | burial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laying in of dead body |
| Synonyms: | burying, deep six, deposition, entombment, exequies, funeral, inhumation, interment, last rites, obsequies, sepulture |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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