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bury¹

  • /ˈbɛɹi/ Canada, US, UK
  • /ˈbeɹi/ Australia
  • [ˈbeɹiː] ~ [ˈbe̞ɹiː] Australia
  • /ˈbeɹi/ New Zealand
  • [ˈbe̝ɹi] ~ [ˈbɪɹi] New Zealand
  • /ˈbɛɾi/ Wales
  • /ˈbʌɾe/ Scotland, mainly
  • /-ɾɪ/ Scotland, mainly
  • /-ɾi/ Scotland, mainly
  • /ˈbʊɹi/
  • /ˈbəri/ South Asia
  • /ˈbeəɹi/ New Zealand, also
  • /ˈbiəɹi/ New Zealand, also

Sounds like berry, Berry, (Mary–marry–merry merger) Barry, beary · Rhymes with -ɛɹi, -ʌɹi, -ɛəɹi

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *burgijaną

Proto-West Germanic *burgijan

Old English byrġan

Middle English birien

English bury

Middle English birien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *burgijan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, protect”).

Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”), Danish bjerge (“to save/rescue something or somebody”); also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ, “to spare”), Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).

The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.

Compare typologically Russian хорони́ть (xoronítʹ) (akin to храни́ть (xranítʹ)), Polish chować.

verb buries · burying · buried

  1. figuratively, slang, transitive To kill or murder.
  2. figuratively, humorous, transitive To outlive. Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!
  3. transitive To place in the ground. bury a bone; bury the embers
  4. figuratively, often, transitive To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. She buried her face in the pillow, and I buried mine in my hands.
  5. figuratively, often, transitive To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out. vocals buried in the mix
  6. broadly, figuratively, often, transitive To overwhelm. They buried us in paperwork.
  7. figuratively, transitive To suppress and hide away in one's mind. secrets kept buried
  8. figuratively, transitive To put an end to; to abandon. They buried their argument and shook hands.
  9. transitive To score (a goal). You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.
  10. slang, transitive To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.

noun buries

  1. obsolete, transitive A burrow. Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.

bury²

  • /ˈbɛɹi/ Canada, US, UK
  • /ˈbeɹi/ Australia
  • [ˈbeɹiː] ~ [ˈbe̞ɹiː] Australia
  • /ˈbeɹi/ New Zealand
  • [ˈbe̝ɹi] ~ [ˈbɪɹi] New Zealand
  • /ˈbɛɾi/ Wales
  • /ˈbʌɾe/ Scotland, mainly
  • /-ɾɪ/ Scotland, mainly
  • /-ɾi/ Scotland, mainly
  • /ˈbʊɹi/
  • /ˈbəri/ South Asia
  • /ˈbeəɹi/ New Zealand, also
  • /ˈbiəɹi/ New Zealand, also

Sounds like berry, Berry, (Mary–marry–merry merger) Barry, beary · Rhymes with -ɛɹi, -ʌɹi, -ɛəɹi

Where it comes from

See borough.

noun buries

  1. transitive A borough; a manor Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic

Bury³

  • /ˈbɛɹi/

Sounds like berry, Berry, bury

Where it comes from

The place name means "fort," from Old English burg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and burgh.

proper noun Burys

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
  2. countable, uncountable A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester.
  3. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Brompton Regis parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9427).
  4. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0113).
  5. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Bury St Edmunds.Bury St Edmunds
  6. countable, uncountable A village in Péruwelz municipality, Hainaut province, Belgium.
  7. countable, uncountable A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
  8. countable, uncountable A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
  9. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

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