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

Derived Forms

• unburied
  adjective
• well-buried
  adjective
• half-buried
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of buried

bury ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

But he watched in disbelief as tonnes of colliery waste poured down the hillside and buried part of the junior school.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Since the mass online release, secrets buried for decades were suddenly just a simple search away.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Its appearance only after the comet had already passed close to the Sun suggests the methane was buried beneath the surface.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

I’m never gonna give you the legend — I’m never gonna give you the key to the buried treasure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

I drew the Bible over my head along with the dress, rolled them together and buried the bundle at the bottom of the clothing pile.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Related Words

• covered
• hidden