bury

bury
bur‧y W3 /ˈberi/ verb (past tense and past participle buried, present participle burying, third person singular buries) [transitive]1.  DEAD PERSON to put someone who has died in a grave
    bury somebody in/at etc something
    He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s.
2.  OBJECT to put something under the ground, often in order to hide it:
    Electric cables are buried beneath the streets.
3.  FALL ON SOMETHING  [usually passive] to fall on top of someone or something, usually harming or destroying them
    be buried under/beneath etc something
    The skiers were buried under the snow.
    Fifty-seven miners were buried alive.
4.  HIDDEN  [usually passive] to cover something so that it cannot be found:
    His glasses were buried under a pile of papers.
5.  FEELING/MEMORY to ignore a feeling or memory and pretend that it does not exist:
    a deeply buried memory
6. bury your face/head etc (in something) to press your face etc into something soft:
    Noel buried his face in the pillow.
7. bury your face/head in your hands to cover your face with your hands because you are very upset
8. bury your head in the sand to ignore an unpleasant situation and hope it will stop if you do not think about it
9. bury the hatchet/bury your differences to agree to stop arguing about something and become friends
10.  IN A SURFACE to push something, especially something sharp, into something else with a lot of force
    bury something in something
    The dog buried its teeth in my leg.
    The bullet buried itself in the wall.
11. bury yourself in your work/studies etc to give all your attention to something:
    After the divorce, she buried herself in her work.
12.  INFORMATION to put information in a document in a place where it is unlikely to be noticed, or to not make it available to people:
    The story was buried at the back of the paper.
13.  LOVED ONE literary to have someone you love die:
    She had buried her husband, two sons, and a daughter.
⇨ be dead and buried at dead¹(14)