different between overpower vs bury

English

Etymology

over- +? power

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v??pa??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o?.v??pa??.?/

Verb

overpower (third-person singular simple present overpowers, present participle overpowering, simple past and past participle overpowered)

1. (transitive) To subdue someone by superior force.

   We overpowered the opposing army within a couple of hours.

2. (transitive) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.

   Bright light overpowers the eyes.
3. (transitive) To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.

   The dish was OK, but the garlic slightly overpowered the herbs.
4. (video games, transitive) To make excessively powerful.

   Antonym: nerf

Translations

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