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All bury synonyms

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verb bury

  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • deposit — A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
  • hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
  • stash — to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
  • sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
  • submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • inter — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
  • inhume — to bury; inter.
  • mummify — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
  • occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
  • screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
  • cache — A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
  • shroud — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
  • implant — to put or fix firmly: to implant sound principles in a child's mind.
  • immerse — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
  • absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
  • occupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
  • interest — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
  • rivet — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
  • lay out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • tomb — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
  • sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
  • cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
  • inearth — (transitive, chiefly poetic) To put into the earth; inter.
  • inurn — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
  • stow away — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
  • throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
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