{
    "term": "bury",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "bury",
            "heSheIt": "buries"
        },
        "pastSimple": "buried",
        "pastParticiple": "buried",
        "ingForm": "burying"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to place a dead body in the ground",
            "sensetop": "bury somebody/somethingbury somebody/something + adv./prep.",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They killed her and **buried her body**.",
                    "contextForm": "bury somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was **buried in** Highgate **Cemetery**.",
                    "contextForm": "bury somebody/something + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their ambitions were finally **dead and buried**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Those people are now all dead and buried."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "phrases": ["be dead and buried", "bury somebody alive", "lie buried"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to lose somebody by death",
            "sensetop": "bury somebody",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's 85 and has buried three husbands."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to hide something in the ground",
            "sensetop": "bury somethingbury something + adv./prep.",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We used to dig for hours, looking for buried treasure.",
                    "contextForm": "bury something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They plan to bury a time capsule containing work from every child in the school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dog had buried its bone in the garden.",
                    "contextForm": "bury something + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The waste is buried deep underground."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["deep", "underground"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to cover somebody/something with soil, rocks, leaves, etc.",
            "sensetop": "bury somebody/somethingbury somebody/something + adv./prep.bury somebody/something + adj.",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A landslide buried about 25 people yesterday.",
                    "contextForm": "bury somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house was buried under ten feet of snow.",
                    "contextForm": "bury somebody/something + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Another vehicle was found buried under rubble."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The miners were **buried alive** when the tunnel collapsed.",
                    "contextForm": "bury somebody/something + adj."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The building was now buried under ten feet of soil."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was buried up to his neck in the sand."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["completely", "partially"],
                "phrases": [
                    "be buried alive",
                    "buried beneath something",
                    "buried under something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to cover something so that it cannot be seen",
            "sensetop": "bury something (+ adv./prep.)",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Your letter got buried under a pile of papers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He buried his face in his hands and wept."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["completely", "partially"],
                "phrases": [
                    "be buried alive",
                    "buried beneath something",
                    "buried under something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to ignore or hide a feeling, a mistake, etc.",
            "sensetop": "bury something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She had learnt to bury her feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her deeply buried pain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What secrets lie buried in the past?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their ambitions were finally dead and buried."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to put something deeply into something else",
            "sensetop": "bury something (in something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He walked slowly, his hands buried in his pockets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She always has her head buried in a book."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["deep", "deeply"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to stop not being friendly and become friends again",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to refuse to admit that a problem exists or refuse to deal with it",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to fail to emphasize the most important part of a story or account",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Unfortunately, he buried the lede in the last paragraph of the story."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberi/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/bury__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberiz/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/buries__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberid/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/buried__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberiɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/burying__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberi/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/bury__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberiz/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/buries__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberid/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/buried__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈberiɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bu/bury/burying__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English byrgan, of West Germanic origin; related to the verb borrow and to borough."
}