verb
- Cover from sight.
- usage: "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
- Place in a grave or tomb.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest
- Place in the earth and cover with soil.
- usage: "They buried the stolen goods"
- Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing.
- usage: "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- synonyms: immerse, swallow, swallow up, eat up
- Embed deeply.
- usage: "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
- synonyms: sink
- Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering.
- usage: "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
- synonyms: forget
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