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Bury vs Reinter - What's the difference?

bury | reinter |

As verbs the difference between bury and reinter

is that bury is to ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb while reinter is to re-bury in a grave.

As a noun bury

is (lb) a or bury can be a borough; a manor.

bury

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) burien, berien, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • 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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  • (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
  • (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
  • (figuratively) To score a goal.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC
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  • (slang) To kill or murder.
    • Derived terms
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    Related terms
    * burial * burian * bury the hatchet

    Noun

    (buries)
  • (lb) A .
  • *
  • *: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.

    • References

    Etymology 2

    See (borough).

    Noun

    (buries)
  • A borough; a manor
  • * 1843 , , 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

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    reinter

    English

    Verb

  • To re-bury in a grave.

    • Usage notes

    * This term is equally applicable whether the new interment is into the same grave as previously (as might happen after a body is exhumed for a medical autopsy) or into a new one (as might happen if a body was originally buried in a place later deemed inappropriate). * The spellings (reintering) (for (reinterring)) and (reintered) (for (reinterred)) exist as well, but are much less common.

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