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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 .
6 to occupy (oneself) completely with something He buries himself in his work .
[Anglo-Saxon byrgan ]
bury one's head in the sand to refuse to think about or accept some unpleasant or unwelcome fact
[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].
bury the hatchet to stop quarrelling and become friends again
[18c: in Native American tradition, when the chiefs met to smoke the peace pipe, hatchets would be buried ceremonially to show that hostilities were at an end].
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