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• past tense form of bury.
• past participle of bury.

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

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Etymology

Origin of buried

bury ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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buried

At first, the researchers suspected that the mummified dog might have been buried relatively recently, perhaps around 50 years earlier during the period of looting.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Sosnoff is a bit more measured in his final assessment, quoting a participant as saying, “We haven’t buried the hatchet yet, but it’s been put away in the closet,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

While Mellaart’s work revealed much about this lost city—including the fact that its residents buried their dead under their floors—much remains unknown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Le Ngoc Mai Uyen was a frequent visitor to the park named after her grandmother, revolutionary fighter Le Thi Rieng, before she realised her relative's body may be buried there.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Her classmates folded 356 cranes so that 1,000 were buried with Sadako.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

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Related Words

• covered
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