BURYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burying mean? 

• BURYING (noun)
  The noun BURYING has 1 sense:

1. concealing something under the ground

  Familiarity information: BURYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concealing something under the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

burial; burying

Hypernyms ("burying" is a kind of...):

concealing; concealment; hiding (the activity of keeping something secret)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burying"):

reburial; reburying (the act of burying again)

 Context examples 

The wind puffed strongly, and the Ghost heeled far over, burying her lee rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

White Fang clung with his fore-paws to the man's shoulders, at the same time burying his fangs into the back of the man's neck.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In a little over an hour there was a loud crack, the tree swayed forward, and then crashed over, burying its branches among the bushes on the farther side.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If Ceres had widespread cryovolcanic activity in the past — the eruption of volatiles such as water — these cryogenic materials also could have flowed across the surface, possibly burying pre-existing large craters.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

You still believe in equality, and yet you do the work of the corporations, and the corporations, from day to day, are busily engaged in burying equality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The next he had thrown himself on his knees beside the table, and burying his face in his hands, he had burst into a storm of passionate sobbing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth was chiefly struck by his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To the right of this stood, and stands to this day, an ancient barrow, or burying mound, covered deeply in a bristle of heather and bracken.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This had just taken place and with great cordiality, when John Knightley made his appearance, and How d'ye do, George? and John, how are you? succeeded in the true English style, burying under a calmness that seemed all but indifference, the real attachment which would have led either of them, if requisite, to do every thing for the good of the other.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sometimes she would lift and send across some great wave, burying her starboard-rail from view, and covering her deck to the hatches with the boiling ocean.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)