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

After my grandfather was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2009, I have watched the little path that leads to his tombstone go from a muddy dirt trail to neatly paved with bricks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

But buried in the detail is one important fact: the Riverside club have not been named by the independent disciplinary commission as an "interested party".

From BBC • May 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

Some remain sharply defined, while others have been partially buried or eroded away over time.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

I even shoved some plant fertilizer sticks that I found buried in Mom’s shed into the soil, and still nothing.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Related Words

• covered
• hidden