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

Many before Bill have buried LeBron James, only to see him rise to the occasion once again and prove them wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

When he died in Brazil in 1979, he was buried under a false name.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Avalanches start long before the slide, with a weak layer of snow buried under everything that follows.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

By analyzing carbon 14 levels in preserved organic material such as ancient buried trees, scientists can track changes in solar activity stretching back thousands of years.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

I sat down on a rock and buried my face in my arms.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Related Words

• covered
• hidden