Synonyms for bury
Most common
eat up swallow swallow up lay to rest inhume hide forget concentrate
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
2. Lay to rest
Definitions
- v. 1
To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. To kill or murder.
- v. 2
To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. To outlive.
Grandpa’s still in excellent health. He’ll bury us all!
- v. 3
To place in the ground.
bury a bone; bury the embers
Forms
- Past participle
- buried
e.g. buried → immersed, swallowed, overwhelmed, engulfed…
Choose the right word
Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- swallow Mary wanted the ground to open up and swallow her.
- hide It became so that I had to hide from the landlord.
By length
- 4 letters
- hide1, sink1
- 5 letters
- cover2, inter2, cache1, inurn
- 6 letters
- forget2, cancel2, engulf2, entomb2, inhume
- 7 letters
- swallow2, conceal2, immerse2, repress2, secrete2, baptize2, baptise, inearth, embowel
- 8 letters
- suppress2
- 9 letters
- overwhelm3
- 11 letters
- concentrate3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cover2 = 2 syllables).