bury – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of bury

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to bury
Participle: buried
Gerund: burying

Cognates

See the 3 cognates of bury

Indicative

Present

Ibury
youbury
he;she;itburies
webury
youbury
theybury

Perfect

Ihave buried
youhave buried
he;she;ithas buried
wehave buried
youhave buried
theyhave buried

Past

Iburied
youburied
he;she;itburied
weburied
youburied
theyburied

Pluperfect

Ihad buried
youhad buried
he;she;ithad buried
wehad buried
youhad buried
theyhad buried

Future

Iwill bury
youwill bury
he;she;itwill bury
wewill bury
youwill bury
theywill bury

Future Perfect

Iwill have buried
youwill have buried
he;she;itwill have buried
wewill have buried
youwill have buried
theywill have buried

Subjunctive

Present

Ibury
youbury
he;she;itbury
webury
youbury
theybury

Perfect

Ihave buried
youhave buried
he;she;ithave buried
wehave buried
youhave buried
theyhave buried

Imperfect

Iburied
youburied
he;she;itburied
weburied
youburied
theyburied

Pluperfect

Ihad buried
youhad buried
he;she;ithad buried
wehad buried
youhad buried
theyhad buried

Conditional

Present

Iwould bury
youwould bury
he;she;itwould bury
wewould bury
youwould bury
theywould bury

Perfect

Iwould have buried
youwould have buried
he;she;itwould have buried
wewould have buried
youwould have buried
theywould have buried

Imperative

youbury
weLet's bury
youbury

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam burying
youare burying
he;she;itis burying
weare burying
youare burying
theyare burying

Perfect

Ihave been burying
youhave been burying
he;she;ithas been burying
wehave been burying
youhave been burying
theyhave been burying

Past

Iwas burying
youwere burying
he;she;itwas burying
wewere burying
youwere burying
theywere burying

Pluperfect

Ihad been burying
youhad been burying
he;she;ithad been burying
wehad been burying
youhad been burying
theyhad been burying

Future

Iwill be burying
youwill be burying
he;she;itwill be burying
wewill be burying
youwill be burying
theywill be burying

Future Perfect

Iwill have been burying
youwill have been burying
he;she;itwill have been burying
wewill have been burying
youwill have been burying
theywill have been burying

Conditional

Present

Iwould be burying
youwould be burying
he;she;itwould be burying
wewould be burying
youwould be burying
theywould be burying

Perfect

Iwould have been burying
youwould have been burying
he;she;itwould have been burying
wewould have been burying
youwould have been burying
theywould have been burying

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'bury'

accompany, acetify, acidify, adsignify, affy, alacrify, alkalify, ally, amnesty, amplify, angelify, anglicify, anglify, apology, apply, arefy, argufy, astony, atrophy, avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'bury'

buoy, burk, burl, burn, burp, burr, busy, buy, jury, abuy,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to put to death; to extinguish life.
annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
inter
enshrine, entomb, inhume, plant, sepulcher
embed
implant
inundate
immerse, sink, engulf, conceal, enshroud, hide, secrete
conquer
overcome, defeat, beat

Antonyms

conquer
surrender, yield, forfeit

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. byrgan, akin to beorgan "to shelter," from P.Gmc. *burzjanan "protection, shelter" (cf. O.N. bjarga, Sw. berga, Ger. bergen, Goth. bairgan), from PIE base *bhergh- "protect, preserve" (cf. O.C.S. brego "I preserve, guard"). The O.E. -y- was a short "oo" sound, like modern Fr. -u-. It normally transformed into Mod.Eng. -i- (cf. bridge, kiss, listen, sister), but in bury and a few other words (merry, knell) it retains a Kentish change to "e" that took place in the late O.E. period. In the West Midlands, meanwhile, the O.E. -y- sound persisted, slightly modified over time, giving the standard modern pronunciation of blush, much, church.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *burgijaną
5. Proto-West Germanic *burgijan
6. Old English byrġan
7. Middle English birien
8. English bury
9. Middle English birien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *burgijan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, protect”).
10. Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”), Danish bjerge (“to save/rescue something or somebody”); also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ, “to spare”), Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).
11. The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.
12. Compare typologically Russian хорони́ть (xoronítʹ) (akin to храни́ть (xranítʹ)), Polish chować. See: Middle English 'birien', Proto-Germanic '*burgijaną', Icelandic 'byrgja', German, old spelling 'bergen', Danish 'bjerge', Russian 'бере́чь'.

Verbs referencing "bury"

Scots bury, Sranan beri, Icelandic byrgja.

Sample Sentences

  • “ Then you will feel for me. I have lost two, one after another,—left ’ em buried there when I came away; and I had only this one left. I never slept a night without him; he was all I had. He was my comfort and pride, day and night; and, ma’am, they were going to take him away [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] home or friends; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human voice. He is a man buried alive; to be dug out in the slow round of years; and in the mean time dead to everything but torturing anxieties and horrible despair. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] When I have made my toilet, I go upon the hurricane-deck, and set in for two hours of hard walking up and down. The sun is rising brilliantly; we are passing Mount Vernon, where Washington lies buried; the river is wide and rapid; and its banks are beautiful. All the glory and splendour of the day are coming on, and growing brighter every minute. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] to look about me; and was duly shown a model prison on the solitary system, just erected, and as yet without an inmate; the trunk of an old tree to which Harris, the first settler here (afterwards buried under it ), was tied by hostile Indians, with his funeral pile about him, when he was saved by the timely appearance of a friendly party on the opposite shore of the river; the local legislature [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] as this, the unwieldy machine takes its hoarse, sullen way: venting, at every revolution of the paddles, a loud high-pressure blast; enough, one would think, to waken up the host of Indians who lie buried in a great mound yonder: so old, that mighty oaks and other forest trees have struck their roots into its earth; and so high, that it is a hill, even among the hills that Nature planted round it. [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Cicero, when he buried his darling and only daughter, had a heart as full of honest grief as poor Tom’s,—perhaps no fuller, for both were only men; — but Cicero could pause over no such sublime words of hope, and look to [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • Has there ever been a child like Eva ? Yes, there have been; but their names are always on grave-stones, and their sweet smiles, their heavenly eyes, their singular words and ways, are among the buried treasures of yearning hearts. In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who _is not_. It is as if heaven [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ I'll bring her to ! ” said the driver, with a brutal grin. “ I'll give her something better than camphire ! ” and, taking a pin from his coat-sleeve, he buried it to the head in her flesh. The woman groaned, and half rose. “ Get up, you beast, and work, will yer, or I'll show yer a trick more ! ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] stop, with an air of frigid composure, till she had mastered herself. When she came to the touching words, “ Father forgive them, for they know not what they do, ” she threw down the book, and, burying her face in the heavy masses of her hair, she sobbed aloud, with a convulsive violence. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • Fixing his keen dark eyes on Legree, he simply said, pointing to the dead, “ You have got all you ever can of him. What shall I pay you for the body ? I will take it away, and bury it decently. ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)