Definition of bury in English:

bury

verbburying, buries, buried ˈbɛriˈbɛri

1with object Put or hide underground.
埋于地下
he buried the box in the back garden
他把盒子埋在后花园里。
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr. Flanagan said that in a perfect world there would be no landfills, and waste would be buried five miles underground.
- He was also invited to put a memento, a signed copy of the day's programme, into a time capsule that will be buried in the ground.
- This property-imaging process will help us to look for anything that may be buried below ground.
- A burial urn is a specific urn meant for being buried underground, like traditional caskets.
- Power cables are to be buried underground, at a cost of #200,000.
- These pneumatic tubes are to be buried underground, in a large network that sends out food and drinks in all directions.
- Once electrical cables on Beach Road are buried underground, others will follow shortly after, as the process is expected to spread out to other parts of the city.
- There really wasn't much there to begin with, because the plane had hit the ground so hard and was buried underneath the ground for the most part in fragments.
- It was stored at the main farm in large, cool wooden vats of sour whey which were partly buried in the ground.
- There is a secret cellar buried under ground which has been bricked up for many years.
- Each stone was taken to a different area outside the jungle the tribe lived in and were buried in the ground.
- The later levels of the game are so unbearably evil, that this game really should have been locked in a lead case and buried half a mile underground.
- But he did not know what the box that had been buried was.
- In the desperate flee from their homes the Hurworth families had been unable to take everything with them, so buried some treasured possessions under a tree.
- The seeds that were buried in the ground return as new shoots.
- In the early 18th century, the bales came to be half buried in the ground circling the ring, similar to the way they are at present.
- The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors.
- Treasures are buried in unexpected places, and some things that are buried are not considered treasures until revealed.
- Those who travelled to Ireland may well have sought the protection of their castle at Dundrum and, perhaps, buried their most valuable treasure there.
- Their base can be buried in the ground and a smaller part remains visible.
Synonyms
subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement
1. 1.1 Place (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb, usually with funeral rites.
  埋葬
  he was buried in St John's churchyard
  他被埋在圣约翰教堂墓地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The dismembered body of Alan Wilson was found buried under garden rubbish at a tenement in the west end of Edinburgh.
  This animal was kept at the Tower, died after only two years and was buried in the grounds, but its story does not end there.
  Burial vaults are used to protect a casket or urn once they have been buried in the ground.
  He had to be buried in unconsecrated ground outside the city walls.
  Although a member of one of American's wealthiest and most charitable families, Gwen Grant Mellon was buried in a cardboard box.
  Billy goes home and prepares a box to bury Old Dan in.
  Those burying their dead insisting that blood begets blood.
  The cemetery was also one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground.
  I've wanted to be buried in a plain pine box ever since I read that wood bio-degrades at the same rate as the human body.
  He, along with 10 others are buried in the grounds of the jail and for several years all the families have pushed for the proper burial of their relatives.
  She died October 5, 1952 and is buried here on the grounds of her beloved school.
  When an individual has passed on, many are buried underground in cemeteries.
  When I see the faces of families burying their dead, victims of rampant crime, I can only wonder how they must feel to lose loved ones in such circumstances.
  ‘At one time they apparently were buried in the ground in some other cemetery and were dug up and taken to the crematory,’ he said.
  The 81-year-old from Great Horton travelled with his daughter to visit battle grounds and cemeteries where his comrades have been buried.
  Her body was found buried in dense undergrowth in Donore, Co Meath, more than three weeks later.
  It's okay, you can go ahead and die now and not have to worry that you'll be buried in a cardboard box.
  That, too, is part of burying our dead and moving on.
  He says many families are very traditional, with generations having been buried in the same ground.
  Many veterans of the Civil War were treated there, some of whom are buried in a cemetery on the grounds.
  Synonyms
  inter, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb
  earth up
  informal put six feet under, plant
  North American informal deep-six
  literary sepulchre, ensepulchre, inhume, inearth
2. 1.2 Lose (someone, especially a relative) through death.
  〈喻〉失去（某人，尤指亲属）
  a rich old lady who had buried two husbands
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it seems to me that what I am hearing is that, regardless of the details, there is a common thread between moms who have had to bury children.
  Edith buried her husband of forty-some years over a decade ago.
  Several years after she buried her husband, she had additional remains cremated and sprinkled at his grave during a graveside service.
  In most cases, parents buried their children unaware that organs were missing.
2Cover (someone or something) completely.
the countryside has been buried under layers of concrete
农村被层层钢筋水泥取而代之。
the sheep were buried beneath six-foot drifts of snow
Example sentencesExamples
- Jolting along the river-bed-turned-road, I hoped desperately for no rain, realizing that even a shower in Uganda could bury us in mud.
- The river thundered below like a chorus of goblin voices, clamoring to snatch me away and bury me beneath the tumult of ice and rock, where no one would ever find me.
- The town was rather quickly forgotten and left buried until the 18th century, when excavations began.
- Debris and pieces of glass were falling, burying everything below.
- He knew he was buried beneath the rubble, somehow alive, but trapped beneath the pile of rocks that had been upturned around him.
- When buried by later sediments, clays can undergo changes in their mineralogy, a process known as diagenesis.
- She was buried under a thin layer of sand, and she suspected that if she moved, she would find that the sand had crept inside her clothes and would grate against her skin.
- The underground tunnels leading to it have also been buried.
- You are probably buried in letters from people who are eager to spend money on this new film.
- The only survivor of a warehouse collapse yesterday recalled the terrifying moment when sixty tonnes of rubble crashed down on him, burying him and three other men.
- The bulldozer continued to advance, burying her in the pile of rubble before driving over her twice.
- With a start, the white snow suddenly rushed toward his head, and it was buried beneath the layer of ice in no time.
- He was presumably buried beneath the snow and ice, and he was dead.
- It was buried beneath a layer of dead leaves and twigs.
- The mines are large deposits of crystalline salts formed when ancient seas dried up and were buried underground.
- Twenty-one skiers had started out that morning from the Chalet; 13 were now buried below.
- The ceiling collapses right on top of Daniel, burying him beneath the rubble.
- He was soon buried beneath them, still fighting futilely for his life…
- While in the undergrowth the bright wrappers would be dirtied by mud and buried by leaves.
- Ambitious new proposals for York's vital Castle-Piccadilly area could see the car park at the foot of Clifford's Tower buried underground.
Synonyms
hide, conceal, cover, put out of sight, secrete, enfold
submerge, sink, embed, engulf, immerse, enclose, tuck, cup
literary enshroud
1. 2.1 Hide (something) from sight.
  she buried her face in her hands
  她用双手捂住脸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He still holds the glass in his left hand and struggles, self consciously, unsuccessfully, to bury it into the pocket of his lab coat.
  The dark-haired boy buried his face further into Sully's neck, answering Sully's sleepy inquiry with a incoherent mumble.
  She let herself fall into the bed, buried her head beneath the covers, and continued letting tears fall down her face as her body shook and the pillow dampened.
  With a spring and a dive, she was buried beneath blankets and pillows.
  Ally burst out laughing, burying her head in Trent's shoulder to hide it.
  She chose to hide her face from Adrian's sight, burying it underneath her hands.
  His hands were buried in his pockets and he wore the same navy sweater that he'd worn the night before.
  I rolled over, burying my face into the pillow, not hiding my sobs.
  Amanda took a sharp inhalation of breath before burying her face in Greg's chest, trying to hide from it, but she had seen it anyway.
  I yanked another tissue from my pocket and buried my head in it.
  She buried her face beneath the covers and just lied there, motionless, but thinking.
  As the man comes closer, you notice he is puffing at a pipe, while the other hand is buried deep in the pocket of his coat.
  I get up and throw myself at him, burying my face in his jacket, wanting to hide away in this familiarity.
  I could see Alexander cover his nose and his jackal buried its head beneath its paws.
  His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers.
  He was soon buried beneath all the clothing and pillows in the room.
  She turned her head away from the gruesome sight and buried it against Kreed's chest.
  His hands were buried in his pockets the whole time as he looked ahead to the horizon.
  Ashley bit her lip and tried to hid her pain by burying her face in Tommy's shoulder, but it was obvious to all the men present that she was in agony.
  Just crawl under the cool covers and bury my head in the pillow and sleep like normal people do at this hour.
  Synonyms
  hide, cover up, disguise, dissemble, mask, veil
2. 2.2 Hide or try to forget (a feeling or memory)
  they had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear
  他们忘却了尴尬和恐惧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If this comes to pass, the tower's historical importance will be buried and forgotten amid crowded shops and indifferent shoppers.
  Indeed for auditors and pension fund managers it has been a week to bury and forget.
  Anna reined in her tears, holding them inside herself, and burying them in the dark place where she knew she was no good.
  We came to learn from our history, but we find it being buried to hide its lessons.
  To kill a culture is to cast its individual members into everlasting oblivion, their memories buried with their mortal remains.
  I have painful memories that lie buried and untouched most of the time. It is never easy when they surface.
  And Agnes has some secrets of her own that the others would just as soon bury and forget.
  This will save you lots of grief caused by papers getting mixed up, lost, or buried by other papers.
  Having got him the votes the promise was forgotten and quietly buried.
  Upon reintroductions and exchanging greetings, we exchanged interesting views and recalled old memories that had been for a very long time buried in our memories.
  Apparently the immediate mourning of Otua's passing had disappeared, but Lee could still sense a deeply buried feeling of grief.
  I told you there were other stories buried in my memory.
  Today, holding her bundle of joy, she has buried her painful memories.
  It was bringing back some memories that she buried deep within her.
  He needed to forget about Elizabeth and bury the love he still felt for her in a grave someplace.
  By 1991, such childhood memories lay buried in the deep recesses of my mind.
  Not that de Crignis disguises or buries his technique.
  He opened them and continued on talking about the old times, about memories not long ago buried by sadness and bitterness.
  I don't know if anger influences what I do - I think it is too buried beneath my layers of detachment and self-delusion.
  Adam looked at Evangeline, her voice was level but in her eyes, for a split second, he could see that there was fear buried in that memory.
3. 2.3bury oneself Involve oneself deeply in something to the exclusion of other concerns.
  忙于，专心于
  he buried himself in work
  他专心工作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘They need to bury themselves in the norm - they need to be doing stuff,’ said Kara Kiewel, the company spokeswoman.
  Does anybody really care if he buys a novel at every airport and buries himself in its pages rather than interacting with the other players on the flights?
  How often have we seen someone bury themselves in work - pushing themselves hard?
  She made excuses not to follow Eliza and Mikelle down to lunch, and buried herself inside her schoolwork.
  The Flosses bury themselves deeply in denial, while Joe struggles with an unspoken regret.
  I probably buried myself in work on a law review article.
  Most people just opened up the reading material they'd brought with them and buried themselves in it.
  Don't be like Halle Berry, burying herself in film projects and vowing never to marry again.
  Instead of burying themselves in ancient texts, they must understand the irrelevance of those texts to modern politics.
  I gave up gym last year and buried myself in work.
  Significantly, in the New York public library, he buries himself in the history of the civil war between North and South.
  At times we lose sight of Jem, as he is buried beneath the politics.
  They couldn't go rambling about or fishing or playing cricket on the green or burying themselves in books.
  She buries herself in books and takes comfort in being an observer.
  While many people will deeply bury themselves in the mood of worship on Sunday, the doors will be widely open at Kamwala's Hindu Hall for any person to attend the long-awaited Crossroads national music festival.
  Definitely this is not the time to call in a child psychologist or bury ourselves in academic discussions on the merits and demerits of Freud versus Skinner versus Piaget.
  He's now burying himself in ‘son of Johnston’, the tale of William McEwan, another young Scot similarly engaged in road surveying just five years later, and almost as quickly dead.
  People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine.
  The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams.
  Off the pitch, he is happy burying himself in his music, while he devotes time to the association of charities he has established.
  Synonyms
  absorb, engross, occupy, engage, busy, employ, distract, preoccupy, immerse, interest, involve
4. 2.4informal (of a football player) shoot (the ball) into the goal.
  〈非正式〉（球员）把（球）射入球门
  he ran through to bury a right-foot shot inside the near post
  他带球过人，用右脚在近门柱处射球入网。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unmarked and sprinting into the box, LuaLua buries a left-shot past the ‘keeper from about 10 yards.

Phrases

bury one's head in the sand

Ignore unpleasant realities.
不正视现实；逃避现实；不愿正视困难，采取鸵鸟政策
Example sentencesExamples
- And now I have to get well - properly well - which means no more burying my head in the sand.
- Being one of these people who buries their head in the sand and ignores imminent problems, I just pushed myself too far lately and ended up just losing it.
- She said she was almost positive Carla knew about this - how could the rumours have missed her - but that she chose to ignore it, burying her head in the sand.
- If you don't think you have got a gun crime problem you are burying your head in the sand.
- Clay Serby's remarks brought quick condemnation from other politicians and farm groups but Serby defended himself by saying that anyone blind to this potential reality is burying their head in the sand.
- People are burying their head in the sand because they think it's not happening or affecting them.
- Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try to make a valid point, a certain opponent will simply bury his/her head in the sand?
- I'm not burying my head in the sand but I really believe that, by reaching our potential, this is a game we can win.
- In the meantime, contemporary British theatre continues to offer an alternative to burying your head in the sand.
- I thought being here would've taught you that you can't bury your head in the sand, ignore things that threaten or bother you.

Origin

Old English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough.

Rhymes

beriberi, berry, BlackBerry, Ceri, Derry, ferry, Gerry, jerry, Kerry, merry, perry, Pondicherry, sherry, terry, very, wherry, wolfberry

Definition of bury in US English:

bury

verbˈberēˈbɛri

1with object Put or hide under ground.
埋于地下
he buried the box in the back garden
他把盒子埋在后花园里。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their base can be buried in the ground and a smaller part remains visible.
- In the early 18th century, the bales came to be half buried in the ground circling the ring, similar to the way they are at present.
- It was stored at the main farm in large, cool wooden vats of sour whey which were partly buried in the ground.
- Once electrical cables on Beach Road are buried underground, others will follow shortly after, as the process is expected to spread out to other parts of the city.
- The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors.
- Those who travelled to Ireland may well have sought the protection of their castle at Dundrum and, perhaps, buried their most valuable treasure there.
- These pneumatic tubes are to be buried underground, in a large network that sends out food and drinks in all directions.
- This property-imaging process will help us to look for anything that may be buried below ground.
- There is a secret cellar buried under ground which has been bricked up for many years.
- Mr. Flanagan said that in a perfect world there would be no landfills, and waste would be buried five miles underground.
- Each stone was taken to a different area outside the jungle the tribe lived in and were buried in the ground.
- A burial urn is a specific urn meant for being buried underground, like traditional caskets.
- The seeds that were buried in the ground return as new shoots.
- But he did not know what the box that had been buried was.
- He was also invited to put a memento, a signed copy of the day's programme, into a time capsule that will be buried in the ground.
- In the desperate flee from their homes the Hurworth families had been unable to take everything with them, so buried some treasured possessions under a tree.
- The later levels of the game are so unbearably evil, that this game really should have been locked in a lead case and buried half a mile underground.
- There really wasn't much there to begin with, because the plane had hit the ground so hard and was buried underneath the ground for the most part in fragments.
- Treasures are buried in unexpected places, and some things that are buried are not considered treasures until revealed.
- Power cables are to be buried underground, at a cost of #200,000.
Synonyms
subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement
1. 1.1usually be buried Place (a dead body) in the earth, in a tomb, or in the sea, typically with funeral rites.
  埋葬
  he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery
  Example sentencesExamples
  Those burying their dead insisting that blood begets blood.
  It's okay, you can go ahead and die now and not have to worry that you'll be buried in a cardboard box.
  The dismembered body of Alan Wilson was found buried under garden rubbish at a tenement in the west end of Edinburgh.
  When an individual has passed on, many are buried underground in cemeteries.
  She died October 5, 1952 and is buried here on the grounds of her beloved school.
  That, too, is part of burying our dead and moving on.
  He, along with 10 others are buried in the grounds of the jail and for several years all the families have pushed for the proper burial of their relatives.
  He says many families are very traditional, with generations having been buried in the same ground.
  Billy goes home and prepares a box to bury Old Dan in.
  Her body was found buried in dense undergrowth in Donore, Co Meath, more than three weeks later.
  ‘At one time they apparently were buried in the ground in some other cemetery and were dug up and taken to the crematory,’ he said.
  When I see the faces of families burying their dead, victims of rampant crime, I can only wonder how they must feel to lose loved ones in such circumstances.
  Many veterans of the Civil War were treated there, some of whom are buried in a cemetery on the grounds.
  This animal was kept at the Tower, died after only two years and was buried in the grounds, but its story does not end there.
  I've wanted to be buried in a plain pine box ever since I read that wood bio-degrades at the same rate as the human body.
  The 81-year-old from Great Horton travelled with his daughter to visit battle grounds and cemeteries where his comrades have been buried.
  The cemetery was also one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground.
  Although a member of one of American's wealthiest and most charitable families, Gwen Grant Mellon was buried in a cardboard box.
  Burial vaults are used to protect a casket or urn once they have been buried in the ground.
  He had to be buried in unconsecrated ground outside the city walls.
  Synonyms
  inter, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb
2. 1.2 Lose (someone, especially a relative) through death.
  〈喻〉失去（某人，尤指亲属）
  she buried her sixty-year-old husband
  她丈夫去世了，享年60岁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In most cases, parents buried their children unaware that organs were missing.
  But it seems to me that what I am hearing is that, regardless of the details, there is a common thread between moms who have had to bury children.
  Several years after she buried her husband, she had additional remains cremated and sprinkled at his grave during a graveside service.
  Edith buried her husband of forty-some years over a decade ago.
2Completely cover; cause to disappear or become inconspicuous.
the countryside has been buried under layers of concrete
农村被层层钢筋水泥取而代之。
figurative the warehouse was buried in the faceless sprawl of the city
〈喻〉仓库位于伦敦南部大片毫无特色的建筑群中。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was presumably buried beneath the snow and ice, and he was dead.
- The mines are large deposits of crystalline salts formed when ancient seas dried up and were buried underground.
- The town was rather quickly forgotten and left buried until the 18th century, when excavations began.
- He knew he was buried beneath the rubble, somehow alive, but trapped beneath the pile of rocks that had been upturned around him.
- Ambitious new proposals for York's vital Castle-Piccadilly area could see the car park at the foot of Clifford's Tower buried underground.
- The ceiling collapses right on top of Daniel, burying him beneath the rubble.
- The only survivor of a warehouse collapse yesterday recalled the terrifying moment when sixty tonnes of rubble crashed down on him, burying him and three other men.
- Jolting along the river-bed-turned-road, I hoped desperately for no rain, realizing that even a shower in Uganda could bury us in mud.
- The river thundered below like a chorus of goblin voices, clamoring to snatch me away and bury me beneath the tumult of ice and rock, where no one would ever find me.
- Twenty-one skiers had started out that morning from the Chalet; 13 were now buried below.
- She was buried under a thin layer of sand, and she suspected that if she moved, she would find that the sand had crept inside her clothes and would grate against her skin.
- When buried by later sediments, clays can undergo changes in their mineralogy, a process known as diagenesis.
- You are probably buried in letters from people who are eager to spend money on this new film.
- While in the undergrowth the bright wrappers would be dirtied by mud and buried by leaves.
- He was soon buried beneath them, still fighting futilely for his life…
- The bulldozer continued to advance, burying her in the pile of rubble before driving over her twice.
- With a start, the white snow suddenly rushed toward his head, and it was buried beneath the layer of ice in no time.
- It was buried beneath a layer of dead leaves and twigs.
- The underground tunnels leading to it have also been buried.
- Debris and pieces of glass were falling, burying everything below.
Synonyms
hide, conceal, cover, put out of sight, secrete, enfold
1. 2.1 Move or put out of sight.
  隐藏；把…插入
  she buried her face in her hands
  她用双手捂住脸。
  with his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat
  他的双手插在大衣口袋里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could see Alexander cover his nose and his jackal buried its head beneath its paws.
  I rolled over, burying my face into the pillow, not hiding my sobs.
  With a spring and a dive, she was buried beneath blankets and pillows.
  He was soon buried beneath all the clothing and pillows in the room.
  I get up and throw myself at him, burying my face in his jacket, wanting to hide away in this familiarity.
  Amanda took a sharp inhalation of breath before burying her face in Greg's chest, trying to hide from it, but she had seen it anyway.
  The dark-haired boy buried his face further into Sully's neck, answering Sully's sleepy inquiry with a incoherent mumble.
  Just crawl under the cool covers and bury my head in the pillow and sleep like normal people do at this hour.
  She let herself fall into the bed, buried her head beneath the covers, and continued letting tears fall down her face as her body shook and the pillow dampened.
  She turned her head away from the gruesome sight and buried it against Kreed's chest.
  Ally burst out laughing, burying her head in Trent's shoulder to hide it.
  His hands were buried in his pockets the whole time as he looked ahead to the horizon.
  I yanked another tissue from my pocket and buried my head in it.
  His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers.
  As the man comes closer, you notice he is puffing at a pipe, while the other hand is buried deep in the pocket of his coat.
  She chose to hide her face from Adrian's sight, burying it underneath her hands.
  Ashley bit her lip and tried to hid her pain by burying her face in Tommy's shoulder, but it was obvious to all the men present that she was in agony.
  He still holds the glass in his left hand and struggles, self consciously, unsuccessfully, to bury it into the pocket of his lab coat.
  She buried her face beneath the covers and just lied there, motionless, but thinking.
  His hands were buried in his pockets and he wore the same navy sweater that he'd worn the night before.
  Synonyms
  hide, cover up, disguise, dissemble, mask, veil
2. 2.2 Deliberately forget; conceal from oneself.
  〈喻〉（故意）遗忘；忘却
  they had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear
  他们忘却了尴尬和恐惧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not that de Crignis disguises or buries his technique.
  Having got him the votes the promise was forgotten and quietly buried.
  Anna reined in her tears, holding them inside herself, and burying them in the dark place where she knew she was no good.
  This will save you lots of grief caused by papers getting mixed up, lost, or buried by other papers.
  By 1991, such childhood memories lay buried in the deep recesses of my mind.
  We came to learn from our history, but we find it being buried to hide its lessons.
  Today, holding her bundle of joy, she has buried her painful memories.
  He opened them and continued on talking about the old times, about memories not long ago buried by sadness and bitterness.
  Apparently the immediate mourning of Otua's passing had disappeared, but Lee could still sense a deeply buried feeling of grief.
  He needed to forget about Elizabeth and bury the love he still felt for her in a grave someplace.
  To kill a culture is to cast its individual members into everlasting oblivion, their memories buried with their mortal remains.
  Indeed for auditors and pension fund managers it has been a week to bury and forget.
  I told you there were other stories buried in my memory.
  Adam looked at Evangeline, her voice was level but in her eyes, for a split second, he could see that there was fear buried in that memory.
  I have painful memories that lie buried and untouched most of the time. It is never easy when they surface.
  I don't know if anger influences what I do - I think it is too buried beneath my layers of detachment and self-delusion.
  If this comes to pass, the tower's historical importance will be buried and forgotten amid crowded shops and indifferent shoppers.
  And Agnes has some secrets of her own that the others would just as soon bury and forget.
  It was bringing back some memories that she buried deep within her.
  Upon reintroductions and exchanging greetings, we exchanged interesting views and recalled old memories that had been for a very long time buried in our memories.
3. 2.3 Overwhelm (an opponent) beyond hope of recovery.
  制服，压倒（对手）
  losses that would bury multiple businesses
  Example sentencesExamples
  There's wide applause from around the room, and I realize that this group hasn't come to praise Copps for her principles, but to bury her.
  All he has ever done is bury his opponents and kill all of their heat.
  Is that really where we want to bury the American Dream?
  Although, I think Brock also realizes that if he does stick around, he will be buried beyond belief, and will not let that happen.
  It is not surprising that the Palestinians would come up with false ‘we will bury you’ type population estimates.
  I would though be very surprised if the team's cup hopes were to be buried at this early stage.
  Those two incidents certainly buried any dwindling hopes of a Cork recovery.
  No, what primarily caught my attention was the manner in which the two men went on and on and on and on, as if they hoped to bury the United States under the sheer mass of their verbiage.
  What seemed like it would bury him actually helped him.
  This breakdown buried all hopes that Russian capitalism would pull the country out of its economic backwardness and poverty in the foreseeable future.
  If anyone wants to argue this with me, I will bury you.
  QB Trent Green was a large factor in the 1-6 start that buried playoff hopes.
  The striker's hat-trick goal put United back in front and Kelvin Page finally buried any hopes the other team had of another revival with goal number five.
4. 2.4bury oneself Involve oneself deeply in something to the exclusion of other concerns.
  忙于，专心于
  he buried himself in work
  他专心工作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  How often have we seen someone bury themselves in work - pushing themselves hard?
  Instead of burying themselves in ancient texts, they must understand the irrelevance of those texts to modern politics.
  Does anybody really care if he buys a novel at every airport and buries himself in its pages rather than interacting with the other players on the flights?
  ‘They need to bury themselves in the norm - they need to be doing stuff,’ said Kara Kiewel, the company spokeswoman.
  Significantly, in the New York public library, he buries himself in the history of the civil war between North and South.
  The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams.
  While many people will deeply bury themselves in the mood of worship on Sunday, the doors will be widely open at Kamwala's Hindu Hall for any person to attend the long-awaited Crossroads national music festival.
  At times we lose sight of Jem, as he is buried beneath the politics.
  People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine.
  She made excuses not to follow Eliza and Mikelle down to lunch, and buried herself inside her schoolwork.
  Definitely this is not the time to call in a child psychologist or bury ourselves in academic discussions on the merits and demerits of Freud versus Skinner versus Piaget.
  He's now burying himself in ‘son of Johnston’, the tale of William McEwan, another young Scot similarly engaged in road surveying just five years later, and almost as quickly dead.
  The Flosses bury themselves deeply in denial, while Joe struggles with an unspoken regret.
  Most people just opened up the reading material they'd brought with them and buried themselves in it.
  I probably buried myself in work on a law review article.
  They couldn't go rambling about or fishing or playing cricket on the green or burying themselves in books.
  Off the pitch, he is happy burying himself in his music, while he devotes time to the association of charities he has established.
  She buries herself in books and takes comfort in being an observer.
  I gave up gym last year and buried myself in work.
  Don't be like Halle Berry, burying herself in film projects and vowing never to marry again.
  Synonyms
  absorb, engross, occupy, engage, busy, employ, distract, preoccupy, immerse, interest, involve

Phrases

bury one's head in the sand

Ignore unpleasant realities.
不正视现实；逃避现实；不愿正视困难，采取鸵鸟政策
Example sentencesExamples
- Being one of these people who buries their head in the sand and ignores imminent problems, I just pushed myself too far lately and ended up just losing it.
- She said she was almost positive Carla knew about this - how could the rumours have missed her - but that she chose to ignore it, burying her head in the sand.
- I thought being here would've taught you that you can't bury your head in the sand, ignore things that threaten or bother you.
- Clay Serby's remarks brought quick condemnation from other politicians and farm groups but Serby defended himself by saying that anyone blind to this potential reality is burying their head in the sand.
- Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try to make a valid point, a certain opponent will simply bury his/her head in the sand?
- People are burying their head in the sand because they think it's not happening or affecting them.
- And now I have to get well - properly well - which means no more burying my head in the sand.
- I'm not burying my head in the sand but I really believe that, by reaching our potential, this is a game we can win.
- If you don't think you have got a gun crime problem you are burying your head in the sand.
- In the meantime, contemporary British theatre continues to offer an alternative to burying your head in the sand.

Origin

Old English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough.

单词	bury
释义	Definition of bury in English: bury verbburying, buries, buried ˈbɛriˈbɛri 1with object Put or hide underground. 埋于地下 he buried the box in the back garden 他把盒子埋在后花园里。 Example sentencesExamples Mr. Flanagan said that in a perfect world there would be no landfills, and waste would be buried five miles underground. He was also invited to put a memento, a signed copy of the day's programme, into a time capsule that will be buried in the ground. This property-imaging process will help us to look for anything that may be buried below ground. A burial urn is a specific urn meant for being buried underground, like traditional caskets. Power cables are to be buried underground, at a cost of #200,000. These pneumatic tubes are to be buried underground, in a large network that sends out food and drinks in all directions. Once electrical cables on Beach Road are buried underground, others will follow shortly after, as the process is expected to spread out to other parts of the city. There really wasn't much there to begin with, because the plane had hit the ground so hard and was buried underneath the ground for the most part in fragments. It was stored at the main farm in large, cool wooden vats of sour whey which were partly buried in the ground. There is a secret cellar buried under ground which has been bricked up for many years. Each stone was taken to a different area outside the jungle the tribe lived in and were buried in the ground. The later levels of the game are so unbearably evil, that this game really should have been locked in a lead case and buried half a mile underground. But he did not know what the box that had been buried was. In the desperate flee from their homes the Hurworth families had been unable to take everything with them, so buried some treasured possessions under a tree. The seeds that were buried in the ground return as new shoots. In the early 18th century, the bales came to be half buried in the ground circling the ring, similar to the way they are at present. The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors. Treasures are buried in unexpected places, and some things that are buried are not considered treasures until revealed. Those who travelled to Ireland may well have sought the protection of their castle at Dundrum and, perhaps, buried their most valuable treasure there. Their base can be buried in the ground and a smaller part remains visible. Synonyms subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement 1.1 Place (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb, usually with funeral rites. 埋葬 he was buried in St John's churchyard 他被埋在圣约翰教堂墓地。 Example sentencesExamples The dismembered body of Alan Wilson was found buried under garden rubbish at a tenement in the west end of Edinburgh. This animal was kept at the Tower, died after only two years and was buried in the grounds, but its story does not end there. Burial vaults are used to protect a casket or urn once they have been buried in the ground. He had to be buried in unconsecrated ground outside the city walls. Although a member of one of American's wealthiest and most charitable families, Gwen Grant Mellon was buried in a cardboard box. Billy goes home and prepares a box to bury Old Dan in. Those burying their dead insisting that blood begets blood. The cemetery was also one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground. I've wanted to be buried in a plain pine box ever since I read that wood bio-degrades at the same rate as the human body. He, along with 10 others are buried in the grounds of the jail and for several years all the families have pushed for the proper burial of their relatives. She died October 5, 1952 and is buried here on the grounds of her beloved school. When an individual has passed on, many are buried underground in cemeteries. When I see the faces of families burying their dead, victims of rampant crime, I can only wonder how they must feel to lose loved ones in such circumstances. ‘At one time they apparently were buried in the ground in some other cemetery and were dug up and taken to the crematory,’ he said. The 81-year-old from Great Horton travelled with his daughter to visit battle grounds and cemeteries where his comrades have been buried. Her body was found buried in dense undergrowth in Donore, Co Meath, more than three weeks later. It's okay, you can go ahead and die now and not have to worry that you'll be buried in a cardboard box. That, too, is part of burying our dead and moving on. He says many families are very traditional, with generations having been buried in the same ground. Many veterans of the Civil War were treated there, some of whom are buried in a cemetery on the grounds. Synonyms inter, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb earth up informal put six feet under, plant North American informal deep-six literary sepulchre, ensepulchre, inhume, inearth 1.2 Lose (someone, especially a relative) through death. 〈喻〉失去（某人，尤指亲属） a rich old lady who had buried two husbands Example sentencesExamples But it seems to me that what I am hearing is that, regardless of the details, there is a common thread between moms who have had to bury children. Edith buried her husband of forty-some years over a decade ago. Several years after she buried her husband, she had additional remains cremated and sprinkled at his grave during a graveside service. In most cases, parents buried their children unaware that organs were missing. 2Cover (someone or something) completely. the countryside has been buried under layers of concrete 农村被层层钢筋水泥取而代之。 the sheep were buried beneath six-foot drifts of snow Example sentencesExamples Jolting along the river-bed-turned-road, I hoped desperately for no rain, realizing that even a shower in Uganda could bury us in mud. The river thundered below like a chorus of goblin voices, clamoring to snatch me away and bury me beneath the tumult of ice and rock, where no one would ever find me. The town was rather quickly forgotten and left buried until the 18th century, when excavations began. Debris and pieces of glass were falling, burying everything below. He knew he was buried beneath the rubble, somehow alive, but trapped beneath the pile of rocks that had been upturned around him. When buried by later sediments, clays can undergo changes in their mineralogy, a process known as diagenesis. She was buried under a thin layer of sand, and she suspected that if she moved, she would find that the sand had crept inside her clothes and would grate against her skin. The underground tunnels leading to it have also been buried. You are probably buried in letters from people who are eager to spend money on this new film. The only survivor of a warehouse collapse yesterday recalled the terrifying moment when sixty tonnes of rubble crashed down on him, burying him and three other men. The bulldozer continued to advance, burying her in the pile of rubble before driving over her twice. With a start, the white snow suddenly rushed toward his head, and it was buried beneath the layer of ice in no time. He was presumably buried beneath the snow and ice, and he was dead. It was buried beneath a layer of dead leaves and twigs. The mines are large deposits of crystalline salts formed when ancient seas dried up and were buried underground. Twenty-one skiers had started out that morning from the Chalet; 13 were now buried below. The ceiling collapses right on top of Daniel, burying him beneath the rubble. He was soon buried beneath them, still fighting futilely for his life… While in the undergrowth the bright wrappers would be dirtied by mud and buried by leaves. Ambitious new proposals for York's vital Castle-Piccadilly area could see the car park at the foot of Clifford's Tower buried underground. Synonyms hide, conceal, cover, put out of sight, secrete, enfold submerge, sink, embed, engulf, immerse, enclose, tuck, cup literary enshroud 2.1 Hide (something) from sight. she buried her face in her hands 她用双手捂住脸。 Example sentencesExamples He still holds the glass in his left hand and struggles, self consciously, unsuccessfully, to bury it into the pocket of his lab coat. The dark-haired boy buried his face further into Sully's neck, answering Sully's sleepy inquiry with a incoherent mumble. She let herself fall into the bed, buried her head beneath the covers, and continued letting tears fall down her face as her body shook and the pillow dampened. With a spring and a dive, she was buried beneath blankets and pillows. Ally burst out laughing, burying her head in Trent's shoulder to hide it. She chose to hide her face from Adrian's sight, burying it underneath her hands. His hands were buried in his pockets and he wore the same navy sweater that he'd worn the night before. I rolled over, burying my face into the pillow, not hiding my sobs. Amanda took a sharp inhalation of breath before burying her face in Greg's chest, trying to hide from it, but she had seen it anyway. I yanked another tissue from my pocket and buried my head in it. She buried her face beneath the covers and just lied there, motionless, but thinking. As the man comes closer, you notice he is puffing at a pipe, while the other hand is buried deep in the pocket of his coat. I get up and throw myself at him, burying my face in his jacket, wanting to hide away in this familiarity. I could see Alexander cover his nose and his jackal buried its head beneath its paws. His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers. He was soon buried beneath all the clothing and pillows in the room. She turned her head away from the gruesome sight and buried it against Kreed's chest. His hands were buried in his pockets the whole time as he looked ahead to the horizon. Ashley bit her lip and tried to hid her pain by burying her face in Tommy's shoulder, but it was obvious to all the men present that she was in agony. Just crawl under the cool covers and bury my head in the pillow and sleep like normal people do at this hour. Synonyms hide, cover up, disguise, dissemble, mask, veil 2.2 Hide or try to forget (a feeling or memory) they had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear 他们忘却了尴尬和恐惧。 Example sentencesExamples If this comes to pass, the tower's historical importance will be buried and forgotten amid crowded shops and indifferent shoppers. Indeed for auditors and pension fund managers it has been a week to bury and forget. Anna reined in her tears, holding them inside herself, and burying them in the dark place where she knew she was no good. We came to learn from our history, but we find it being buried to hide its lessons. To kill a culture is to cast its individual members into everlasting oblivion, their memories buried with their mortal remains. I have painful memories that lie buried and untouched most of the time. It is never easy when they surface. And Agnes has some secrets of her own that the others would just as soon bury and forget. This will save you lots of grief caused by papers getting mixed up, lost, or buried by other papers. Having got him the votes the promise was forgotten and quietly buried. Upon reintroductions and exchanging greetings, we exchanged interesting views and recalled old memories that had been for a very long time buried in our memories. Apparently the immediate mourning of Otua's passing had disappeared, but Lee could still sense a deeply buried feeling of grief. I told you there were other stories buried in my memory. Today, holding her bundle of joy, she has buried her painful memories. It was bringing back some memories that she buried deep within her. He needed to forget about Elizabeth and bury the love he still felt for her in a grave someplace. By 1991, such childhood memories lay buried in the deep recesses of my mind. Not that de Crignis disguises or buries his technique. He opened them and continued on talking about the old times, about memories not long ago buried by sadness and bitterness. I don't know if anger influences what I do - I think it is too buried beneath my layers of detachment and self-delusion. Adam looked at Evangeline, her voice was level but in her eyes, for a split second, he could see that there was fear buried in that memory. 2.3bury oneself Involve oneself deeply in something to the exclusion of other concerns. 忙于，专心于 he buried himself in work 他专心工作。 Example sentencesExamples ‘They need to bury themselves in the norm - they need to be doing stuff,’ said Kara Kiewel, the company spokeswoman. Does anybody really care if he buys a novel at every airport and buries himself in its pages rather than interacting with the other players on the flights? How often have we seen someone bury themselves in work - pushing themselves hard? She made excuses not to follow Eliza and Mikelle down to lunch, and buried herself inside her schoolwork. The Flosses bury themselves deeply in denial, while Joe struggles with an unspoken regret. I probably buried myself in work on a law review article. Most people just opened up the reading material they'd brought with them and buried themselves in it. Don't be like Halle Berry, burying herself in film projects and vowing never to marry again. Instead of burying themselves in ancient texts, they must understand the irrelevance of those texts to modern politics. I gave up gym last year and buried myself in work. Significantly, in the New York public library, he buries himself in the history of the civil war between North and South. At times we lose sight of Jem, as he is buried beneath the politics. They couldn't go rambling about or fishing or playing cricket on the green or burying themselves in books. She buries herself in books and takes comfort in being an observer. While many people will deeply bury themselves in the mood of worship on Sunday, the doors will be widely open at Kamwala's Hindu Hall for any person to attend the long-awaited Crossroads national music festival. Definitely this is not the time to call in a child psychologist or bury ourselves in academic discussions on the merits and demerits of Freud versus Skinner versus Piaget. He's now burying himself in ‘son of Johnston’, the tale of William McEwan, another young Scot similarly engaged in road surveying just five years later, and almost as quickly dead. People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine. The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams. Off the pitch, he is happy burying himself in his music, while he devotes time to the association of charities he has established. Synonyms absorb, engross, occupy, engage, busy, employ, distract, preoccupy, immerse, interest, involve 2.4informal (of a football player) shoot (the ball) into the goal. 〈非正式〉（球员）把（球）射入球门 he ran through to bury a right-foot shot inside the near post 他带球过人，用右脚在近门柱处射球入网。 Example sentencesExamples Unmarked and sprinting into the box, LuaLua buries a left-shot past the ‘keeper from about 10 yards. Phrases bury one's head in the sand Ignore unpleasant realities. 不正视现实；逃避现实；不愿正视困难，采取鸵鸟政策 Example sentencesExamples And now I have to get well - properly well - which means no more burying my head in the sand. Being one of these people who buries their head in the sand and ignores imminent problems, I just pushed myself too far lately and ended up just losing it. She said she was almost positive Carla knew about this - how could the rumours have missed her - but that she chose to ignore it, burying her head in the sand. If you don't think you have got a gun crime problem you are burying your head in the sand. Clay Serby's remarks brought quick condemnation from other politicians and farm groups but Serby defended himself by saying that anyone blind to this potential reality is burying their head in the sand. People are burying their head in the sand because they think it's not happening or affecting them. Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try to make a valid point, a certain opponent will simply bury his/her head in the sand? I'm not burying my head in the sand but I really believe that, by reaching our potential, this is a game we can win. In the meantime, contemporary British theatre continues to offer an alternative to burying your head in the sand. I thought being here would've taught you that you can't bury your head in the sand, ignore things that threaten or bother you. Origin Old English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough. Rhymes beriberi, berry, BlackBerry, Ceri, Derry, ferry, Gerry, jerry, Kerry, merry, perry, Pondicherry, sherry, terry, very, wherry, wolfberry verb.1 phr. Definition of bury in US English: bury verbˈberēˈbɛri 1with object Put or hide under ground. 埋于地下 he buried the box in the back garden 他把盒子埋在后花园里。 Example sentencesExamples Their base can be buried in the ground and a smaller part remains visible. In the early 18th century, the bales came to be half buried in the ground circling the ring, similar to the way they are at present. It was stored at the main farm in large, cool wooden vats of sour whey which were partly buried in the ground. Once electrical cables on Beach Road are buried underground, others will follow shortly after, as the process is expected to spread out to other parts of the city. The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors. Those who travelled to Ireland may well have sought the protection of their castle at Dundrum and, perhaps, buried their most valuable treasure there. These pneumatic tubes are to be buried underground, in a large network that sends out food and drinks in all directions. This property-imaging process will help us to look for anything that may be buried below ground. There is a secret cellar buried under ground which has been bricked up for many years. Mr. Flanagan said that in a perfect world there would be no landfills, and waste would be buried five miles underground. Each stone was taken to a different area outside the jungle the tribe lived in and were buried in the ground. A burial urn is a specific urn meant for being buried underground, like traditional caskets. The seeds that were buried in the ground return as new shoots. But he did not know what the box that had been buried was. He was also invited to put a memento, a signed copy of the day's programme, into a time capsule that will be buried in the ground. In the desperate flee from their homes the Hurworth families had been unable to take everything with them, so buried some treasured possessions under a tree. The later levels of the game are so unbearably evil, that this game really should have been locked in a lead case and buried half a mile underground. There really wasn't much there to begin with, because the plane had hit the ground so hard and was buried underneath the ground for the most part in fragments. Treasures are buried in unexpected places, and some things that are buried are not considered treasures until revealed. Power cables are to be buried underground, at a cost of #200,000. Synonyms subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement 1.1usually be buried Place (a dead body) in the earth, in a tomb, or in the sea, typically with funeral rites. 埋葬 he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery Example sentencesExamples Those burying their dead insisting that blood begets blood. It's okay, you can go ahead and die now and not have to worry that you'll be buried in a cardboard box. The dismembered body of Alan Wilson was found buried under garden rubbish at a tenement in the west end of Edinburgh. When an individual has passed on, many are buried underground in cemeteries. She died October 5, 1952 and is buried here on the grounds of her beloved school. That, too, is part of burying our dead and moving on. He, along with 10 others are buried in the grounds of the jail and for several years all the families have pushed for the proper burial of their relatives. He says many families are very traditional, with generations having been buried in the same ground. Billy goes home and prepares a box to bury Old Dan in. Her body was found buried in dense undergrowth in Donore, Co Meath, more than three weeks later. ‘At one time they apparently were buried in the ground in some other cemetery and were dug up and taken to the crematory,’ he said. When I see the faces of families burying their dead, victims of rampant crime, I can only wonder how they must feel to lose loved ones in such circumstances. Many veterans of the Civil War were treated there, some of whom are buried in a cemetery on the grounds. This animal was kept at the Tower, died after only two years and was buried in the grounds, but its story does not end there. I've wanted to be buried in a plain pine box ever since I read that wood bio-degrades at the same rate as the human body. The 81-year-old from Great Horton travelled with his daughter to visit battle grounds and cemeteries where his comrades have been buried. The cemetery was also one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground. Although a member of one of American's wealthiest and most charitable families, Gwen Grant Mellon was buried in a cardboard box. Burial vaults are used to protect a casket or urn once they have been buried in the ground. He had to be buried in unconsecrated ground outside the city walls. Synonyms inter, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb 1.2 Lose (someone, especially a relative) through death. 〈喻〉失去（某人，尤指亲属） she buried her sixty-year-old husband 她丈夫去世了，享年60岁。 Example sentencesExamples In most cases, parents buried their children unaware that organs were missing. But it seems to me that what I am hearing is that, regardless of the details, there is a common thread between moms who have had to bury children. Several years after she buried her husband, she had additional remains cremated and sprinkled at his grave during a graveside service. Edith buried her husband of forty-some years over a decade ago. 2Completely cover; cause to disappear or become inconspicuous. the countryside has been buried under layers of concrete 农村被层层钢筋水泥取而代之。 figurative the warehouse was buried in the faceless sprawl of the city 〈喻〉仓库位于伦敦南部大片毫无特色的建筑群中。 Example sentencesExamples He was presumably buried beneath the snow and ice, and he was dead. The mines are large deposits of crystalline salts formed when ancient seas dried up and were buried underground. The town was rather quickly forgotten and left buried until the 18th century, when excavations began. He knew he was buried beneath the rubble, somehow alive, but trapped beneath the pile of rocks that had been upturned around him. Ambitious new proposals for York's vital Castle-Piccadilly area could see the car park at the foot of Clifford's Tower buried underground. The ceiling collapses right on top of Daniel, burying him beneath the rubble. The only survivor of a warehouse collapse yesterday recalled the terrifying moment when sixty tonnes of rubble crashed down on him, burying him and three other men. Jolting along the river-bed-turned-road, I hoped desperately for no rain, realizing that even a shower in Uganda could bury us in mud. The river thundered below like a chorus of goblin voices, clamoring to snatch me away and bury me beneath the tumult of ice and rock, where no one would ever find me. Twenty-one skiers had started out that morning from the Chalet; 13 were now buried below. She was buried under a thin layer of sand, and she suspected that if she moved, she would find that the sand had crept inside her clothes and would grate against her skin. When buried by later sediments, clays can undergo changes in their mineralogy, a process known as diagenesis. You are probably buried in letters from people who are eager to spend money on this new film. While in the undergrowth the bright wrappers would be dirtied by mud and buried by leaves. He was soon buried beneath them, still fighting futilely for his life… The bulldozer continued to advance, burying her in the pile of rubble before driving over her twice. With a start, the white snow suddenly rushed toward his head, and it was buried beneath the layer of ice in no time. It was buried beneath a layer of dead leaves and twigs. The underground tunnels leading to it have also been buried. Debris and pieces of glass were falling, burying everything below. Synonyms hide, conceal, cover, put out of sight, secrete, enfold 2.1 Move or put out of sight. 隐藏；把…插入 she buried her face in her hands 她用双手捂住脸。 with his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat 他的双手插在大衣口袋里。 Example sentencesExamples I could see Alexander cover his nose and his jackal buried its head beneath its paws. I rolled over, burying my face into the pillow, not hiding my sobs. With a spring and a dive, she was buried beneath blankets and pillows. He was soon buried beneath all the clothing and pillows in the room. I get up and throw myself at him, burying my face in his jacket, wanting to hide away in this familiarity. Amanda took a sharp inhalation of breath before burying her face in Greg's chest, trying to hide from it, but she had seen it anyway. The dark-haired boy buried his face further into Sully's neck, answering Sully's sleepy inquiry with a incoherent mumble. Just crawl under the cool covers and bury my head in the pillow and sleep like normal people do at this hour. She let herself fall into the bed, buried her head beneath the covers, and continued letting tears fall down her face as her body shook and the pillow dampened. She turned her head away from the gruesome sight and buried it against Kreed's chest. Ally burst out laughing, burying her head in Trent's shoulder to hide it. His hands were buried in his pockets the whole time as he looked ahead to the horizon. I yanked another tissue from my pocket and buried my head in it. His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers. As the man comes closer, you notice he is puffing at a pipe, while the other hand is buried deep in the pocket of his coat. She chose to hide her face from Adrian's sight, burying it underneath her hands. Ashley bit her lip and tried to hid her pain by burying her face in Tommy's shoulder, but it was obvious to all the men present that she was in agony. He still holds the glass in his left hand and struggles, self consciously, unsuccessfully, to bury it into the pocket of his lab coat. She buried her face beneath the covers and just lied there, motionless, but thinking. His hands were buried in his pockets and he wore the same navy sweater that he'd worn the night before. Synonyms hide, cover up, disguise, dissemble, mask, veil 2.2 Deliberately forget; conceal from oneself. 〈喻〉（故意）遗忘；忘却 they had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear 他们忘却了尴尬和恐惧。 Example sentencesExamples Not that de Crignis disguises or buries his technique. Having got him the votes the promise was forgotten and quietly buried. Anna reined in her tears, holding them inside herself, and burying them in the dark place where she knew she was no good. This will save you lots of grief caused by papers getting mixed up, lost, or buried by other papers. By 1991, such childhood memories lay buried in the deep recesses of my mind. We came to learn from our history, but we find it being buried to hide its lessons. Today, holding her bundle of joy, she has buried her painful memories. He opened them and continued on talking about the old times, about memories not long ago buried by sadness and bitterness. Apparently the immediate mourning of Otua's passing had disappeared, but Lee could still sense a deeply buried feeling of grief. He needed to forget about Elizabeth and bury the love he still felt for her in a grave someplace. To kill a culture is to cast its individual members into everlasting oblivion, their memories buried with their mortal remains. Indeed for auditors and pension fund managers it has been a week to bury and forget. I told you there were other stories buried in my memory. Adam looked at Evangeline, her voice was level but in her eyes, for a split second, he could see that there was fear buried in that memory. I have painful memories that lie buried and untouched most of the time. It is never easy when they surface. I don't know if anger influences what I do - I think it is too buried beneath my layers of detachment and self-delusion. If this comes to pass, the tower's historical importance will be buried and forgotten amid crowded shops and indifferent shoppers. And Agnes has some secrets of her own that the others would just as soon bury and forget. It was bringing back some memories that she buried deep within her. Upon reintroductions and exchanging greetings, we exchanged interesting views and recalled old memories that had been for a very long time buried in our memories. 2.3 Overwhelm (an opponent) beyond hope of recovery. 制服，压倒（对手） losses that would bury multiple businesses Example sentencesExamples There's wide applause from around the room, and I realize that this group hasn't come to praise Copps for her principles, but to bury her. All he has ever done is bury his opponents and kill all of their heat. Is that really where we want to bury the American Dream? Although, I think Brock also realizes that if he does stick around, he will be buried beyond belief, and will not let that happen. It is not surprising that the Palestinians would come up with false ‘we will bury you’ type population estimates. I would though be very surprised if the team's cup hopes were to be buried at this early stage. Those two incidents certainly buried any dwindling hopes of a Cork recovery. No, what primarily caught my attention was the manner in which the two men went on and on and on and on, as if they hoped to bury the United States under the sheer mass of their verbiage. What seemed like it would bury him actually helped him. This breakdown buried all hopes that Russian capitalism would pull the country out of its economic backwardness and poverty in the foreseeable future. If anyone wants to argue this with me, I will bury you. QB Trent Green was a large factor in the 1-6 start that buried playoff hopes. The striker's hat-trick goal put United back in front and Kelvin Page finally buried any hopes the other team had of another revival with goal number five. 2.4bury oneself Involve oneself deeply in something to the exclusion of other concerns. 忙于，专心于 he buried himself in work 他专心工作。 Example sentencesExamples How often have we seen someone bury themselves in work - pushing themselves hard? Instead of burying themselves in ancient texts, they must understand the irrelevance of those texts to modern politics. Does anybody really care if he buys a novel at every airport and buries himself in its pages rather than interacting with the other players on the flights? ‘They need to bury themselves in the norm - they need to be doing stuff,’ said Kara Kiewel, the company spokeswoman. Significantly, in the New York public library, he buries himself in the history of the civil war between North and South. The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams. While many people will deeply bury themselves in the mood of worship on Sunday, the doors will be widely open at Kamwala's Hindu Hall for any person to attend the long-awaited Crossroads national music festival. At times we lose sight of Jem, as he is buried beneath the politics. People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine. She made excuses not to follow Eliza and Mikelle down to lunch, and buried herself inside her schoolwork. Definitely this is not the time to call in a child psychologist or bury ourselves in academic discussions on the merits and demerits of Freud versus Skinner versus Piaget. He's now burying himself in ‘son of Johnston’, the tale of William McEwan, another young Scot similarly engaged in road surveying just five years later, and almost as quickly dead. The Flosses bury themselves deeply in denial, while Joe struggles with an unspoken regret. Most people just opened up the reading material they'd brought with them and buried themselves in it. I probably buried myself in work on a law review article. They couldn't go rambling about or fishing or playing cricket on the green or burying themselves in books. Off the pitch, he is happy burying himself in his music, while he devotes time to the association of charities he has established. She buries herself in books and takes comfort in being an observer. I gave up gym last year and buried myself in work. Don't be like Halle Berry, burying herself in film projects and vowing never to marry again. Synonyms absorb, engross, occupy, engage, busy, employ, distract, preoccupy, immerse, interest, involve Phrases bury one's head in the sand Ignore unpleasant realities. 不正视现实；逃避现实；不愿正视困难，采取鸵鸟政策 Example sentencesExamples Being one of these people who buries their head in the sand and ignores imminent problems, I just pushed myself too far lately and ended up just losing it. She said she was almost positive Carla knew about this - how could the rumours have missed her - but that she chose to ignore it, burying her head in the sand. I thought being here would've taught you that you can't bury your head in the sand, ignore things that threaten or bother you. Clay Serby's remarks brought quick condemnation from other politicians and farm groups but Serby defended himself by saying that anyone blind to this potential reality is burying their head in the sand. Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try to make a valid point, a certain opponent will simply bury his/her head in the sand? People are burying their head in the sand because they think it's not happening or affecting them. And now I have to get well - properly well - which means no more burying my head in the sand. I'm not burying my head in the sand but I really believe that, by reaching our potential, this is a game we can win. If you don't think you have got a gun crime problem you are burying your head in the sand. In the meantime, contemporary British theatre continues to offer an alternative to burying your head in the sand. Origin Old English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough. verb.1 phr.
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