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bury

verb as in conceal, cover

verb as in plant in ground

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verb as in engross oneself

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He said drugs, money and other paraphernalia were "buried underground" at Tuthill Quarry, with hidden cameras installed by the gang to monitor the set up.

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There were no records of the people buried there, so we counted the graves ourselves.

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Plans for 3,400 homes were approved, with Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich saying the plan would bury the idea of a Palestinian state "because there is nothing to recognise and no one to recognise".

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A 20-day-old baby girl who was found buried alive in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is fighting for survival, hospital authorities say.

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Classic mystery crime: the gentleman who murdered his heiress-wife and, so legend holds, buried her somewhere in the newly poured San Diego Freeway.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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