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.

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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

And yet, the thoughtful op-eds written in the wake of Thompson’s death were buried by Google searches for “Luigi Mangione shirtless.”

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

In spite of their initial resistance, Didion’s writing pulls buried recollections to the surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Most of those exhumed and reburied in Khartoum are identified, Zein al-Abdeen said, by families who buried their loved ones themselves but needed authorities to give them a proper resting place.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

To the enduring mystery of who buried the hoard can be added the true identity of Hewlitt Cosgrove Thompson, the man who sold more than 50 pieces of this unique find and vanished into history.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Elisha was buried on March 14, 1857, in the Kane family mausoleum, next to his little brother Willie.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Related Words

• covered
• hidden