bury

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To place in the ground: bury a bone.
2. v. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter.
3. v. To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.
4. v. To conceal by or as if by covering over with earth; hide: buried her face in the pillow; buried the secret deep within himself.
5. v. To occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb: buried myself in my studies.
6. v. To put an end to; abandon: buried their quarrel and shook hands.
7. idiom. bury the hatchet To stop fighting; resolve a quarrel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A castle, manor-house, or habitation; a borough. The word appears in many names of places, as in Canterbury (AS. gen. and dat. Cantwara-byrig, nom. -burh), Shrewsbury, Aldermanbury, Bury St. Edmunds, etc.
2. n. A burrow.
3. n. A camp or heap of turnips or the like, stored up.
4. To deposit and inclose in a grave or tomb, as a dead body; consign to any final resting-place after or as after death; entomb.
5. To cover or conceal from sight; sink or lodge in or under anything: as, to bury treasures in the earth or under rubbish; he buried the dagger in his enemy's heart.
6. Hence To cover up; keep secret; hide; conceal.
7. To withdraw or conceal in retirement: as, lo bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
8. To hide in oblivion; put away finally from one's thoughts: as, to bury an injury.
9. n. A delicate pear of several varieties.
10. n. Soft shale or clay; flucan.

Wiktionary

1. n. A borough; a manor
2. v. To ritualistically inter a corpse in a grave or tomb. (see burial)
3. v. To place in the ground. "bury a bone"
4. v. To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside"
5. v. figuratively To put an end to; to abandon. "They buried their argument and shook hands"
6. v. figuratively To score a goal

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A borough; a manor
2. n. Prov. Eng. A manor house; a castle.
3. v. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide.
4. v. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
5. v. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cover from sight
2. v. embed deeply
3. v. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
4. v. place in the earth and cover with soil
5. v. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
6. v. place in a grave or tomb