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bury verb (buries, buried, burying) 1 to place (a dead body) in a grave, the sea, etc. 2 to hide something in the ground. 3 to put something out of sight; to cover • bury one's face in one's hands. 4 to put something out of one's mind or memory; to blot out • Let's bury our differences. 5 to lose (a close relative) by death • She has already buried three husbands. bury the hatchet to stop quarrelling and become friends again.
ETYMOLOGY: 18c: in Native American tradition, when the chiefs met to smoke the peace pipe, hatchets and similar weapons would be buried ceremonially to show that hostilities were at an end. bury one's head in the sand to refuse to think about or accept some unpleasant or unwelcome fact.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: from the old belief that the ostrich reacted to danger by burying its head in the sand, apparently thinking that if it could not see it could not be seen.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon byrgan.