buried
Americanadjective
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A struggle also remains for Jefferson-Hemings descendants to gain the right to be buried in the Jefferson graveyard.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Los Angeles is one of many cities across the nation fighting an epic battle to solve a multibillion-dollar problem buried underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Finding the biologically important ones is difficult because genuine peptide hormones are relatively rare and can be buried among large numbers of ordinary fragments created during normal protein processing and breakdown.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
A short drive from the ruined school is the cemetery where many of the pupils and teachers are buried.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Foxes brought Calvin’s body back to Rochester, where he was buried, “a husband, a son, and a brother—and a linch-pin in the cause of Spiritualism.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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