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# bury

«bury» in Mova's school dictionary: **to put something in a hole in the ground and cover it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bury, buries, buried, burying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bury means to put something in a hole in the ground and cover it with earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#m1)

2) To bury a dead person or animal means to put their body in the ground, usually with a ceremony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#m2)

3) To bury can mean to hide something under other things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#m3)

4) To bury yourself in something means to give it all your attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, squirrels bury nuts for winter and dogs bury bones. In history, archaeologists dig up things buried long ago, like Roman coins; pirates in stories bury treasure. In family life, people bury a pet in the garden or a person in a cemetery, which helps them say goodbye. Phrases: bury treasure, buried in, bury your head in the sand, bury the hatchet.

### examples

- The dog buried its bone in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x1)
- Squirrels bury acorns to eat in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x2)
- The pirates buried their treasure on the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x3)
- We buried our hamster under the apple tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x4)
- My homework was buried under a pile of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x5)
- She buried her face in her hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x6)
- Archaeologists found a buried Viking ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x7)
- He buried himself in a good book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x8)
- “Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/#x9)

### note

Said «BER-ee», exactly like «berry», the fruit; do not mix them up. Y changes to ie: buries, buried; but burying. Noun: burial. «Bury the hatchet» means make peace.

### In the corpora

- [They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/)
- [Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/0/)
- [Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/11/)
- [Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand; they could not breathe, and it would not make them safer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/4/)
- [Agoutis open hard Brazil nut pods and bury spare seeds, and the forgotten seeds grow into new Brazil nut trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bury» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bury/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.