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half-buried

adjective

  1. partially buried

    a ring half-buried in the mud



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Another ship, the Eduard Bohlen, currently rests half-buried inland after crashing in 1909.

Two-thirds of each Battalion were sound asleep in pools of mud and water—like corpses half buried!

The boulder crashed into the earth with such force that it half buried itself.

Clark studied the unplowed side of the meadow, then pointed at a large, half-buried boulder.

He took pity upon me and my child, having found us in a dying condition, half buried under the sand.

Wilkinson rolled against the thin branches of a half-buried tree, which caught and turned him partly round.

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