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buried
[ ber-eed ]
adjective
- placed in the ground and covered with earth:
There are countless opportunities for leaks in the miles of buried, hard-to-inspect pipes under the nuclear plant site.
- (of a corpse) placed in the ground or a vault or tomb, or into the sea, often with ceremony:
Here, in the largest of these cemeteries, lie 12,000 buried soldiers from many countries.
- plunged deeply into something:
She looked in shock at the mayor, who was calmly taking the buried knife out of his chest without spilling a drop of blood.
- covered or concealed; made hard to find:
One of the best reasons for the poem’s effectiveness as propaganda is its barely buried exposé of the true engine of war: fear.
- put out of one’s mind:
These pages of fiction woke me up to the buried emotions left from a relationship that nearly cost me my life as a teen.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of bury ( def ).
Other Word Forms
- -ܰ· adjective
- ܲ·ܰ· adjective
- ɱ-ܰ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of buried1
Example Sentences
Many supporters reacted as though the tie was dead and buried after the Gunners were beaten at home by Paris St-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final on Tuesday.
Their bodies were found buried in shallow graves a week later next to the crushed vehicles.
Exhaustively researched, gorgeously crafted and presciently timed, “The Lilac People” exhumes a buried history that could leave us mourning our lost democracy if we don’t learn from, and act on, its tragic lessons.
Mr Ayau said that the remains would again be buried in Hawaii.
It is a stunning political turnaround for a party who were widely considered dead and buried just a few months ago.
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