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

I buried my head in the sand for a really long time, and it wasn’t until the documentary that I looked back at the insanity of it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 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

The scientists then measured carbon 14 levels in buried asunaro wood recovered from Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

We took that away, and began taking the food the sled dogs had buried as well, because Fred was stealing from them.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Related Words

• covered
• hidden