Bury vs Grove - What's the difference?
bury | grove |
To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
To place in the ground.
(transitive, often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
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, title= (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
(figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To score a goal.
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, title= (slang) To kill or murder.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury , and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
A borough; a manor
* 1843 , , book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
As proper nouns the difference between bury and grove
is that bury is a metropolitan borough of greater manchester, england while grove is for someone who lived near a grove.bury
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) burien, berien, from (etyl) .Verb
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
- Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1), passage=You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.}}
Derived terms
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(buries)References
Etymology 2
See (borough).Noun
(buries)- 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