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{
"term": "bury",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "bury",
"heSheIt": "buries"
},
"pastSimple": "buried",
"pastParticiple": "buried",
"ingForm": "burying"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to place a dead body in the ground",
"sensetop": "bury somebody/somethingbury somebody/something + adv./prep.",
"labels": "(figurative)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They killed her and **buried her body**.",
"contextForm": "bury somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He was **buried in** Highgate **Cemetery**.",
"contextForm": "bury somebody/something + adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "Their ambitions were finally **dead and buried**."
},
{
"text": "The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey."
},
{
"text": "Those people are now all dead and buried."
}
],
"topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"phrases": ["be dead and buried", "bury somebody alive", "lie buried"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to lose somebody by death",
"sensetop": "bury somebody",
"labels": "(old-fashioned)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's 85 and has buried three husbands."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to hide something in the ground",
"sensetop": "bury somethingbury something + adv./prep.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We used to dig for hours, looking for buried treasure.",
"contextForm": "bury something"
},
{
"text": "They plan to bury a time capsule containing work from every child in the school."
},
{
"text": "The dog had buried its bone in the garden.",
"contextForm": "bury something + adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "The waste is buried deep underground."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["deep", "underground"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to cover somebody/something with soil, rocks, leaves, etc.",
"sensetop": "bury somebody/somethingbury somebody/something + adv./prep.bury somebody/something + adj.",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "A landslide buried about 25 people yesterday.",
"contextForm": "bury somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The house was buried under ten feet of snow.",
"contextForm": "bury somebody/something + adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "Another vehicle was found buried under rubble."
},
{
"text": "The miners were **buried alive** when the tunnel collapsed.",
"contextForm": "bury somebody/something + adj."
},
{
"text": "The building was now buried under ten feet of soil."
},
{
"text": "He was buried up to his neck in the sand."
},
{
"text": "a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "partially"],
"phrases": [
"be buried alive",
"buried beneath something",
"buried under something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to cover something so that it cannot be seen",
"sensetop": "bury something (+ adv./prep.)",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Your letter got buried under a pile of papers."
},
{
"text": "He buried his face in his hands and wept."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "partially"],
"phrases": [
"be buried alive",
"buried beneath something",
"buried under something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "to ignore or hide a feeling, a mistake, etc.",
"sensetop": "bury something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She had learnt to bury her feelings."
},
{
"text": "her deeply buried pain"
},
{
"text": "What secrets lie buried in the past?"
},
{
"text": "Their ambitions were finally dead and buried."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "to put something deeply into something else",
"sensetop": "bury something (in something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He walked slowly, his hands buried in his pockets."
},
{
"text": "She always has her head buried in a book."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["deep", "deeply"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to stop not being friendly and become friends again",
"examples": [
{
"text": "After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to refuse to admit that a problem exists or refuse to deal with it",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to fail to emphasize the most important part of a story or account",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Unfortunately, he buried the lede in the last paragraph of the story."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberi/",
"audio": "bu/bury/bury__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberiz/",
"audio": "bu/bury/buries__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberid/",
"audio": "bu/bury/buried__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberiɪŋ/",
"audio": "bu/bury/burying__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberi/",
"audio": "bu/bury/bury__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberiz/",
"audio": "bu/bury/buries__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberid/",
"audio": "bu/bury/buried__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈberiɪŋ/",
"audio": "bu/bury/burying__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough."
}