underbury
verbEtymology
From under- + bury.
- derived from *bʰergʰ-✻
- inherited from *burgijaną✻
- inherited from *burgijan✻
- inherited from byrġan
- inherited from birien
Definitions
To bury beneath
To bury beneath; bury under.
- When the marriage act was mooted, Keith swore that he would revenge himself upon the bishops, by taking some acres of land for a burying-ground, and underburying them all.
- [...] he married sixty-one couples and, vowing eternal vengeance on bishops, bought several acres of land for burials, threatening to underbury them all.
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