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.
verb
Other Word Forms
- half-buried adjective
- unburied adjective
- well-buried adjective
Etymology
Origin of buried
Example Sentences
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They talk about all of the things that have been left unsaid, buried by their never-ending battle of wits.
From Salon
Future surveys using magnetic and gravimetric techniques could detect circular underground structures that mark a buried or eroded crater.
From Science Daily
All my buried insecurity came roaring to the surface.
Months after her diagnosis, Lack died from cancer at just 31 and was buried in an unmarked grave.
From BBC
These chemical fossils are traces of biological molecules once produced by living organisms that were later buried, altered, and locked into sediment for hundreds of millions of years.
From Science Daily
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