Buries

Buries is the third-person singular present tense of the verb bury. The verb has several core senses: to place something in the ground and cover it with earth or another material; to inter a dead body in a grave; and to conceal or embed something within a surrounding substance, such as artifacts, debris, or information. In everyday language, buries can refer to interment as well as to concealing objects or data.

Burial, the related noun, denotes the act or process of interment, the grave itself, and the customs surrounding it. Burial practices vary widely across cultures and historical periods and are often governed by legal, religious, and environmental considerations. In cemeteries and funeral contexts, interment typically involves standardized procedures, records, and regulatory compliance.

In geology and archaeology, burial describes how objects or bodies become preserved underground under soil, sediment, or rock. The context of a burial can provide valuable information about age, culture, social status, and historical practices. In everyday and literary usage, the verb is also used metaphorically, as in burying a hatchet (resolving differences) or burying clues or evidence (concealing them), underscoring its broader sense of placing something out of sight or out of reach.

Origin and form: bury derives from Old English byrian/buryan, with cognates in other Germanic languages. The present-tense form buries is standard English for the third-person singular.