put in the ground
Plant in earth
To put something in the ground is to bury it—whether planting She put the bulbs in the ground before the frost or interring the dead We put him in the ground on a Tuesday.
The phrase is plain and literal, though the burial sense can carry emotional weight through its directness.
- buryPlace beneath soil
- interCommit to earth
- six feet underDead and buried
- laid to restBuried after death
- holeAbsence in matter
dig · dig a hole · plant · grave · pit · cultivate · sepulture · entombment · trench · embed · sow · cemetery · seed · inhume · earth · funerary · footing · mortality
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