Buried Definition & Meaning

Definition

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Synonyms buried American [ber-eed] / ˈbɛr id /

adjective

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

1. the simple past tense and past participle of bury.

Other Word Forms

• half-buried adjective
• unburied adjective
• well-buried adjective

Etymology

Origin of buried

bury ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )

Example Sentences

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In the Tres Moinhos neighborhood, three houses were buried by landslides in the early morning hours of Thursday after their residents were evacuated, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.

From Barron's

The U.N. agency has the “firm impression” that Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium still lie buried at the sites bombed last June, Grossi said earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

He’s so mad at his stepmama for putting those socks on his father, and I’ve heard this before when people are like, that’s not what they want to be buried in!

From Los Angeles Times

When it comes to Mars, accessing buried ice will require the right tools.

From Science Daily

Duane grunted and moaned, and just when he thought he was making some progress in digging his cave, he came up against a sturdy wall of snow buried within the snow.

From Literature

Related Words

• covered
• hidden

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