buried

[ ber-eed ]

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 ( def ).

Other Words From

• half-bur·ied adjective
• un·bur·ied adjective
• well-bur·ied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of buried¹

bury ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Their bodies were later found incinerated and buried in mass graves outside of town.

From The Daily Beast

The procession continued on to the Cypress Hill Cemetery, where Ramos was buried the week before.

From The Daily Beast

And there are a few nice things buried beneath the rubble that I could use in my apartment.

From The Daily Beast

In it, Kraven the Hunter tracks down Spider-Man, shoots him repeatedly, and leaves him for dead, buried underground.

From The Daily Beast

Before preservationists could put a stop to it, he and other looters had raided and destroyed precious relics buried at the site.

From The Daily Beast

If they are Ancients and dead then let them be buried and left to the archæological excavator.

From Project Gutenberg

They carried the two bodies together on some litters, and buried them both in the same grave.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the two bodies of the men were buried, carrying them together from the street to the grave.

From Project Gutenberg

They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

From Project Gutenberg

Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto generation and generation.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• covered
• hidden