different between bury vs engulf

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: b?'-ri, IPA^(key): /?b?.?i/, /?b?.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i
• Homophone: berry
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /?b?.?i/ (also used by some outside Scotland)
• (Middlesbrough and Lancashire) IPA^(key): /?b?.?i/

Etymology 1

Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byr?an, from Proto-Germanic *burgijan? (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?erg?- (“to defend, protect”). Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”); also Albanian mburojë (“shield”), Eastern Lithuanian bir?ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian ??????? (beré??, “to spare”), Ossetian ???????? (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).

The spelling with ?u? represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /?/ is from the Kentish dialects.

Verb

bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle burying, simple past and past participle buried)

1. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
2. (transitive) To place in the ground.

3. (transitive, often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.

4. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.

5. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
7. (transitive, figuratively, slang) To kill or murder.
8. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.

9. (transitive, figuratively, humorous) To outlive.

   Grandpa's still in excellent health. He'll bury us all!

Derived terms

Related terms

• burian

Translations

Noun

bury (plural buries)

1. (obsolete) A burrow.

References

Etymology 2

See borough.

Noun

bury (plural buries)

1. A borough; a manor
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"

     Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic

Anagrams

• Ruby, ruby

Polish

Etymology

A post-Mongol invasion Turkic borrowing as Ukrainian ?????? (búryj) and Russian ?????? (búryj), which latter see.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu.r?/

Adjective

bury

1. brownish dark grey
2. dark grey with spots

Declension

Related terms

• (prefix) buro-
• (adverb) buro
• (adjective) burawy
• (nouns) burek, buro??

Noun

bury m anim

1. (regional) bear (ursid)

Further reading

• bury in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

From English bury. Replacing native form bery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ri/

Verb

bury (third-person singular present buries, present participle buryin, past buriet, past participle buriet)

1. (transitive) to bury

English

Etymology

en- +? gulf

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lf

Verb

engulf (third-person singular simple present engulfs, present participle engulfing, simple past and past participle engulfed)

1. (transitive) To overwhelm.

   Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death.

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

   • 1934, The Modern Monthly, vol 8, page 308:

2. (transitive) To surround; to cover.

   Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.

3. (transitive) To cast into a gulf.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lufeng