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bury
What does bury mean?
bury (verb): place in the earth and cover with soil.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use bury in a sentence?
- They buried the stolen goods. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce bury?
/ˈbɛɹi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does bury come from?
Middle English birien, berien, from Old English byrġan.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “bury” mean?
regard something as probable or likely
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to transport toward somebody/somewhere
Not quite: that's what bring means.
place in the earth and cover with soil
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get something; come into possession of
Not quite: that's what receive means.
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