bury
US: /ˈbɛɹi/
UK: /bˈɛɹi/
UK: /bˈɛɹi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
bury /'beri/
- ngoại động từ
- chôn, chôn cất; mai táng
- to be buried alive: bị chôn sống
- chôn vùi, che đi, phủ đi, giấu đi
- to be buried under snow: bị chôn vùi dưới tuyết
- to bury one's hands in one's pockets: đút tay vào túi
- quên đi
- to bury the hatchet
- giảng hoà, làm lành
- to bury oneself in the country
- ở ẩn dật nơi thôn dã
- to bury oneself in one's books
- vùi đầu vào sách vở
- to be buried in thought (in memories of the past)
- mải mê với ý nghĩ (với những kỷ niệm xa xưa)
- to have buried a relative
- đã mất một người thân
- chôn, chôn cất; mai táng
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb (buries, burying, buried, buried)
dead person
1 [VN] to place a dead body in a grave: He was buried in Highgate Cemetery. + (figurative) Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
2 [VN] (old-fashioned) to lose sb by death: She's 85 and has buried three husbands.
hide in ground
3 [VN] to hide sth in the ground: buried treasure + The dog had buried its bone in the garden.
cover
4 [often passive] to cover sb/sth with soil, rocks, leaves, etc: [VN] The house was buried under ten feet of snow. + [VN-ADJ] The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.
5 [VN] to cover sth so that it cannot be seen: Your letter got buried under a pile of papers. + He buried his face in his hands and wept.
hide feeling
6 [VN] to ignore or hide a feeling, a mistake, etc: She had learnt to bury her feelings.
put deeply into sth
7 [VN] ~ sth (in sth) to put sth deeply into sth else: He walked slowly, his hands buried in his pockets. + She always has her head buried in a book.
Idioms: bury the hatchet
bury your differences to stop being unfriendly and become friends again: After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet.
more at HEAD n.
Phrasal Verbs: bury yourself in sth
1 to give all your attention to sth: Since she left, he's buried himself in his work.
2 to go to or be in a place where you will not meet many people: She buried herself in the country to write a book.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 inter, inhume, lay to rest:
They buried her next to her husband as she had requested.
2 abandon, forget, consign to oblivion, eradicate, extirpate:
The residents buried their differences and united to repel the town planners.
3 submerge (oneself), exile (oneself), plunge, become engrossed or absorbed:
She buried herself in her book.
4 conceal, obscure, hide, cover up:
The real story was by now completely buried beneath the mass of legend.
5 overwhelm, overcome, inundate:
I'm so buried in work I can't take a holiday.
Collocation dictionary
1 dead person
PHRASES
be dead and buried
Those people are now all dead and buried. (figurative) Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
| bury sb alive
2 hide in the ground
ADV.
deep | underground
The waste is buried deep underground.
3 cover
ADV.
completely
a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass
PHRASES
be buried alive
The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.
| be/get buried beneath/under sth
The building was now buried under three metres of soil. Your letter got buried under a pile of papers.
4 put sth deeply into sth
ADV.
deep/deeply
He slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest. (figurative) her deeply buried pain
PHRASES
lie/remain buried
(often figurative) The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey. What secrets lie buried in the past?
Concise English dictionary
buried|buries|burying'berɪ
verb
+cover from sight
+place in a grave or tomb
+place in the earth and cover with soil
+enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
+embed deeply
+dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
