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unburied

[uhn-ber-eed, uhn-bur-eed]

adjective

  1. not buried or interred.



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Locals said that M23 fighters told them to immediately bury the bodies in the fields or leave them unburied, preventing families from organising funerals.

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Noticing a temperature change along part of a buried cable could reveal that part has become unburied, for example.

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He was shocked and ashamed as he stood before the unburied dead.

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The other lies unburied and decomposing on the battlefield outside the city gates.

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Johnson unburied him about an hour before sunrise.

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