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

“Mom died. I buried her yesterday. Would you like to go to a movie?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

An alarming nugget buried in the Treasury Department’s annual report External link on the federal government’s books from the last fiscal year: Its long-term liabilities exceed its expected revenue by tens of trillions of dollars.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

The system behind this process is buried deep in the hypothalamus, an ancient part of the brain shared by all mammals.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

In Maryland, we have conducted genealogical research that has already identified living relatives of boys buried after having died or been killed at the House of Reformation.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Wet, cold, and very discouraged, I sat down on an old sycamore log and buried my face in my arms.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Related Words

• covered
• hidden