Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BURY

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Definitions of BURY

1. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
2. A borough; a manor
3. (professional wrestlingslang) Ruining the image or character of another wrestler, usually by embarassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
4. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
5. (transitive) To place in the ground.
6. (transitive, often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
9. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
10. (transitive, figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
11. (transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.
12. (obsolete) A burrow.
13. A town and metropolitan borough in, Greater Manchester, England.
14. A hamlet in Brompton Regis, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS9427).
15. A habitational surname from Old English.

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Examples of Using BURY in a Sentence

• After Ipswich (144,957) in the south, the largest towns are Lowestoft (73,800) in the north-east and Bury St Edmunds (40,664) in the west.
• The Christian army was led by the Patriarch of Antioch, the doge of Venice, Pons, Count of Tripoli and William de Bury, the king's constable.
• Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant churchyards or graveyards.
• Although the two fathers don't get along, their children's engagement seems like a good time to bury the hatchet.
• Greater Manchester contains ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan, the councils of which collaborate through Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
• Jacob's Mouse were a three-piece indie rock band from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, consisting of identical twins Hugo and Jebb Boothby on guitar and bass respectively, and singing drummer Sam Marsh.
• It was originally proposed that the borough include the neighbouring town of Bury and disclude Middleton; Bury however went on to form the administrative centre for the adjacent Metropolitan Borough of Bury.
• Burying beetles are true to their name—they bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and rodents as a food source for their larvae; this makes them carnivorous.
• It appears as ‘Beacles’ circa 1095 in a document from Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and as ‘Beclis’ in 1157 and ‘Becclis’ in 1158 in the Pipe Rolls.
• The ants, however, thankful for life, went searching for black earth and covered the barren sands to bury and honour their creator.
• It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, after Peterborough and Norwich.
• In the will Ælfric split his land holdings in Loddon, Bergh Apton and Barton between the Bishops of Bury, Ely and St Benet of Holme.
• After they bury the dead men, Donlin and Pierson concern themselves with taking care of Hudak, but Corey, who is only concerned with saving himself, declares that sharing their limited supply of water with Hudak will reduce the chances of survival for the rest of them.
• Symmes argued in 1857 that the name was spelled improperly and that the suffix "bury" was more appropriate, leading the name of the community and brook to be changed to "Cranbury" in 1869.
• To reach Heywood, the extension had to cross over the Manchester Metrolink line to Bury, at the site of the former Bury Knowsley Street station.
• Special powers to improve the river from Mildenhall to Bury St Edmunds were granted by statute (River Lark Act 1698).
• The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester.
• In Scandinavian folklore, the mylingar were the phantasmal incarnations of the souls of children that had been forced to roam the earth until they could persuade someone (or otherwise cause enough of a ruckus to make their wishes known) to bury them properly.
• Charles James Blomfield was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the eldest son (and one of ten children) of Charles Blomfield (1763–1831), a schoolmaster (as was Charles James's grandfather, James Blomfield), JP and chief alderman of Bury St Edmunds, and his wife, Hester (1765–1844), daughter of Edward Pawsey, a Bury grocer.
• Repton was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of a collector of excise, John Repton, and Martha (née Fitch of Moor Hall,Stoke by Clare, Suffolk).
• Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 14 miles northeast of Cambridge.
• Stephen Butler, of Bury Lodge, the Butler estate that overlooked the village of Hambledon, Hampshire.
• The couple moved to Bury St Edmunds, and Alice died there giving birth to their son David Hartley (the Younger) (1731–1813).
• On 30 January 1645, committeemen of the Eastern Association discussed their concerns at the Bury Conference at Bury St Edmunds.
• Nearby towns in the built-up area include Stretford, Bolton, Sale and Bury with additional towns nearby being Prestwich, Radcliffe and Urmston.

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