bury
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cover from sight
Afghani women buried under their burkas
Types & categories
- hide hypernym
Sense 2 verb
place in a grave or tomb
Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square
Types & categories
- lay hypernym
Related & opposite
- burial derivation
Sense 3 verb
place in the earth and cover with soil
They buried the stolen goods
Types & categories
- posit hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Types & categories
- inclose hypernym
Sense 5 verb
embed deeply
She sank her fingers into the soft sand
Types & categories
- implant hypernym
- countersink hyponym
Sense 6 verb
dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
I tried to bury these unpleasant memories
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- think of antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hide |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | burial |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | lay |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | burying |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | cover |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | posit |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | inclose |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | implant |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | countersink |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | think of |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | unlearn |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | repress |