bury

To put something or a dead person in the ground and cover them with earth.

• The dog buried its bone.
• They buried their grandfather beside the church.
• Where did the pirates bury the treasure?

How to use it: bury someone/something in something (She buried the box in the garden.)

Similar words: inter, put underground

Opposites: unearth

Common phrases: bury someone, bury treasure, bury something underground

To hide or cover something so that it is difficult to see or find.

• She buried her face in her hands.
• Someone buried the report under a pile of papers.
• The path was buried beneath deep snow.

How to use it: bury something in something (He buried his face in the pillow.); bury something under something (They buried the letter under other papers.)

Similar words: hide, conceal, cover

Opposites: expose, uncover

Common phrases: bury your face, bury bad news, bury something under something

To stop an argument or disagreement and decide not to continue it.

• Let’s bury the hatchet.
• They buried their old quarrel and became friends again.
• Can we bury this disagreement and move on?

Similar words: settle, end, put aside

Common phrases: bury the hatchet, bury a disagreement, bury old quarrels

To live longer than another person and be alive when they die.

• She lived to bury two husbands.
• At ninety, he jokes that he will bury us all.
• The old farmer buried every one of his brothers.

Similar words: outlive, survive

Common phrases: bury someone, bury us all