And all their confidence Under the weight of
mountains buried deep. --Milton.
2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a
deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to
deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral
ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
--Matt. viii.
21.
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak.
3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
to bury strife.
Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all
unkindness, Cassius. --Shak.
{Burying beetle} (Zo["o]l.), the general name of many species
of beetles, of the tribe {Necrophaga}; the sexton beetle;
-- so called from their habit of burying small dead
animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The
larv[ae] feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful
scavengers.
{To bury the hatchet}, to lay aside the instruments of war,
and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom
observed by the North American Indians, of burying a
tomahawk when they conclude a peace.
Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
overwhelm; repress.