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bury the hatchet
bur·y B0206100 (bĕr′ē)tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter.b. To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.2. a. To place in the ground; cover with earth: The dog buried the bone. The oil was buried deep under the tundra.b. To place so as to conceal; hide or obscure: buried her face in the pillow; buried the secret deep within himself.3. To occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb: buried myself in my studies.4. To put an end to; abandon: buried their quarrel and shook hands.5. Slang To outdo or defeat by a large margin: The team was buried in the first half by its crosstown rivals.Idiom: bury the hatchet To stop fighting; resolve a quarrel.
[Middle English burien, from Old English byrgan; see bhergh- in Indo-European roots.]
bur′i·er n.Word History: Why does bury rhyme with berry and not with jury? The answer goes back to early English times. The late Old English form of the verb bury was byrgan, pronounced approximately (bür′yən). During Middle English times this (ü) sound changed, but with different results in different regions of England: to (o͝o) as in put in the Midlands, to (ĭ) as in pit in southern England, or to (ĕ) as in pet in southeast England. London was located in the East Midlands dialect zone, but because of its status as the capital, its East Midlands dialect was influenced by southern (Saxon) and southeastern (Kentish) dialects. The normal East Midlands development of (ü) was (o͝o), spelled u. Because scribes from the East Midlands pronounced the word with this vowel they tended to spell the word with a u, and this spelling became standard when spellings were fixed after the introduction of printing. The word's pronunciation, however, is southeastern. Bury is the only word in Modern English with a Midlands spelling and a southeastern pronunciation. Similarly, the word busy, from Old English bysig, bisig, and its verb bysgian, bisgian, "to employ," is spelled with the East Midlands dialect u, but pronounced with the southern (Saxon) development of (ü), (ĭ).
Bur·y B0206100 (bĕr′ē) A borough of northwest England north-northwest of Manchester.bury the hatchetTo agree to stop fighting or quarreling; from a Native American custom of physically burying a hatchet to symbolize the end of a dispute.Translationsbury (ˈberi) verb1. to place (a dead body) in a grave, the sea etc. 掩埋(屍體) 掩埋（尸体） 2. to hide (under the ground etc). My socks are buried somewhere in this drawer. 埋藏 埋藏ˈburial noun (an instance of) burying (a dead body) in a grave etc. my grandfather's burial: (also adjective) a burial service. 埋葬 埋葬bury the hatchet to stop quarrelling. Let's bury the hatchet and be friends. 停止爭吵 制止争吵bury the hatchet
bury the hatchet1. To make peace with someone. Can you please bury the hatchet and make up with your sister already? I can't take the constant fighting.2. slang To accidentally leave medical instruments inside a patient after surgery. The surgeons have a strict protocol to avoid burying the hatchet, so to speak.See also: bury, hatchetbury the hatchetFig. to make peace. Let's stop arguing and bury the hatchet. Tom and I buried the hatchet and we are good friends now.See also: bury, hatchetbury the hatchetMake peace; settle one's differences. For example, Toward the end of the year, the roommates finally decided to bury the hatchet. Although some believe this term comes from a Native American custom for declaring peace between warring tribes, others say it comes from hang up one's hatchet, a term dating from the early 1300s (well before Columbus landed in the New World). The word bury replaced hang up in the 1700s. See also: bury, hatchetbury the hatchet When people who have argued bury the hatchet, they agree to forget their argument and become friends again. Note: A hatchet is a small axe. They had finally buried the hatchet after their falling-out. Note: In the past, when Native American tribes made peace after fighting each other, it was traditional for each tribe to bury a tomahawk or small axe, as a sign of peace. See also: bury, hatchetbury the hatchet end a quarrel or conflict and become friendly. This expression makes reference to a Native American custom of burying a hatchet or tomahawk to mark the conclusion of a peace treaty.See also: bury, hatchetˌbury the ˈhatchet, ˌbury your ˈdifferences (of two people or groups) agree to forget past disagreements and be friends again: I’ve said I’m prepared to bury the hatchet, but John says he won’t forgive me for what happened.When Native Americans agreed to end fighting and begin a period of peace they held a ceremony in which they buried a hatchet or tomahawk (= a small axe).See also: bury, hatchetbury the hatchet1. tv. to make peace. (From an alleged American Indian practice.) I’m sorry. Let’s stop arguing and bury the hatchet. 2. tv. to leave surgical instruments in the patient. (Medical.) The idea that a doctor would bury the hatchet is a very old joke. See also: bury, hatchet bury the hatchet To stop fighting; resolve a quarrel.See also: bury, hatchetbury the hatchet, toTo make peace or call a truce. Some North American Indian tribes declared peace by burying a tomahawk, a custom described by Samuel Sewell in 1680 and referred to again in subsequent accounts of the American colonies. The term appears in Longfellow’s famous poem, “Hiawatha,” and by the end of the nineteenth century was a cliché for peacemaking on both sides of the Atlantic. See also: burybury the hatchetTo make peace, to settle differences. The phrase comes from the practice among native American and Canadian tribes literally to bury a war axe at the end of hostilities. An 1680 report describes European colonists in what became New England: “Meeting wth ye Sachem [the tribal leaders] the[y] came to an agreemt and buried two Axes in ye Ground; which ceremony to them is more significant & binding than all Articles of Peace . . .”See also: bury, hatchetEncyclopediaSeeBuryBury the Hatchet
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