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.

Other Word Forms

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of buried¹

bury ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Lady Gaga is buried in a shallow grave.

From BBC

It was so deeply buried under the torrent of Trumpian insults and invective, and so badly obscured by an epoch-shifting moment of American self-humiliation on the global stage, as barely to be discernible.

From Salon

The bodies of the three victims were found buried on Wednesday in the yard of a house in a southern suburb of Buenos Aires, five days after they went missing.

From BBC

We owe it to those still living under the shadow of buried bombs to act with urgency and hold true to our commitments.

From Salon

He said drugs, money and other paraphernalia were "buried underground" at Tuthill Quarry, with hidden cameras installed by the gang to monitor the set up.

From BBC

Related Words

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• hidden