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burying   (TTS Sound)

The noun burying has 1 sense

• burying, burial -- (concealing something under the ground)

The verb bury has 6 senses

• bury -- (cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas")


• bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest -- (place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday")


• bury -- (place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods")


• immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up -- (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter")


• bury, sink -- (embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap")


• forget, bury -- (dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories")