Bury vs Indelve - What's the difference?
bury | indelve |
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"
(obsolete) To bury.
To dig or delve into.
*1959 , Traffic Service Corporation, Traffic world: Volume 103 :
To ingrave.
*2006 , Robert L. Vincent, Jr., Consuelo M. Vincent, The Prophecy and Testament :
As a proper noun bury
is a metropolitan borough of greater manchester, england.As a verb indelve is
(obsolete) to bury.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
*Noun
(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
Anagrams
* ----indelve
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- Although this port brings out that there are known cases where, on interline traffic, the delivering carrier had collected, but failed to remit to the consignor, it did indelve into the liability of the initial carrier to the consignor,
- The Vision was in the form of a Book in heaven with small and minute in script and indelved upon Gold of the purest form.