bury vs dead-end

bury

verb
  • To put an end to; to abandon. 

  • To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out. 

  • To outlive. 

  • To score a goal. 

  • To place in the ground. 

  • To suppress and hide away in one's mind. 

  • To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. 

  • To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. 

  • To kill or murder. 

noun
  • A borough; a manor 

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

How often have the words bury and dead-end occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )