enterrer
Meanings
Verb
1. to bury (put underground); to inter
2. to ditch, to bury (a plan, a memory, a legislative proposal, etc.)
3. to outlive, to survive (someone) (by extension, figurative, familiar, figuratively)
4. to hide (figurative, figuratively)
5. to enjoy something before it is gone (figurative, familiar, figuratively)
6. to seclude oneself, to withdraw from the world to live in a remote location (pronominal, figurative, figuratively)
7. (of a horse) to carry the head very low (pronominal, equestrianism)
Examples102
enterrer sa vie de garçon
to celebrate one's stag/bachelor party
enterrer son secret
to hide one's secret
L’avare enterre ses trésors au lieu d’en jouir.
The miser hides his treasures instead of enjoying them.
Là, un jour, Geneviève est morte. Et ils ont parti l’enterrer.
Then one day, Geneviève died. And they left to bury her.
Shireen Abu Akleh a été enterrée à Jérusalem.
Shireen Abu Akleh was buried in Jerusalem.
Il se peut que je t'enterre.
I may outlive you.