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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

Etymology

Origin of buried

bury ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

buried

“While buried under production and weather headlines, strengthening LNG demand—if sustained—may help natural gas find support,” Eli Rubin of EBW Analytics says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

"Our focus will be on locating the victims who are buried under the rubble" said Fathur, adding the rescue effort had been complicated by landslides cutting off several roads.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

"That material is normally permanently buried -- we can only infer what's there. Here, a catastrophic event essentially turned these ancient moons inside out, and we get to see what was hidden inside."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

To ensure they had good weather and non-cloudy skies, the couple carried out a tradition from folklore and buried a sausage.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Or did he too lie buried under the ice?

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Related Words

• covered
• hidden