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BURYING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concealing something under the ground
Synonyms:
burial; burying
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bury
Context examples:
It went over suddenly, burying its gunwale level with the sea and shipping a bucketful or so of water.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
