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• past participle of bury.
• past tense form 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

A time capsule buried in 1876 was opened in 1976.

From Barron's • Jul. 2, 2026

But buried in the recent strength of the greenback is a building risk.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026

There, the four candidates for bishop prostrated themselves before an altar, their heads buried in red velvet pillows.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

When the national mood wobbles, we turn to the arts, which have the power to free buried desires, soothe souls and cross divides.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

Torak knelt and buried his face in Wolf’s fur.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Related Words

• covered
• hidden