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English

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at en-us-buried.ogg

IPA: /ˈbɛ.ɹid/

Adjective

Placed in a grave at a burial.
Concealed, hidden.

Translations

Finnish: haudattu

Finnish: peitetty

Verb form

Gerund and present participle of verb to bury.

de:buried fr:buried ku:buried hu:buried pt:buried te:buried vi:buried zh:buried

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English buried \buried\ adj.
1. covered from view; as, her face buried (or hidden) in her
hands; buried in the smoke of many rifles.

Syn: hidden.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. placed in a grave; as, the hastily buried corpses.
Opposite of unburied.

Syn: inhumed, interred.
[WordNet 1.5]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bury \Bur"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buried; p. pr. & vb. n.
Burying.] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to
beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw.
berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. ba['i]rgan. [root]95. Cf.
Burrow.]
1. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over,
or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal
by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury
the face in the hands.
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And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton.
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2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a
deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to
deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral
ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
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Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
--Matt. viii.
21.
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I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak.
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3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
to bury strife.
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Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak.
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Burying beetle (Zool.), the general name of many species of
beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; --
so called from their habit of burying small dead animals
by digging away the earth beneath them. The larv[ae] feed
upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers.

To bury the hatchet, to lay aside the instruments of war,
and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom
observed by the North American Indians, of burying a
tomahawk when they conclude a peace.
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Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
overwhelm; repress.
[1913 Webster] Burying ground

WordNet buried
adj 1: covered from view; "her face buried (or hidden) in her
hands"; "a secret buried deep within herself" [syn: hidden]
2: placed in a grave; "the hastily buried corpses" [syn: inhumed,
interred] [ant: unburied]

WordNet bury
v 1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
2: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in
the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last
Sunday" [syn: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest]
3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the
stolen goods"
4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The
huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly
thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, {eat
up}]
5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He
buried his head in her lap" [syn: sink]
6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury
these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget] [ant: remember]
[also: buried]

WordNet buried
See bury

Moby Dictionary
abstruse , beclouded , blind , close , clouded , concealed , covered ,
covert , deep-buried , drowned , eclipsed , engulfed , flooded , guarded ,
hid , hidden , immersed , in a cloud , in a fog , in eclipse , in purdah ,
in the wings , incommunicado , inundated , latent , mysterious ,
obfuscated , obscure , obscured , occult , privy , recondite , secluded ,
secluse , secret , sequestered , shrouded , subaqueous , submarine ,
submerged , submersed , subterranean , subterraneous , sunken ,
under an eclipse , under cover , under house arrest , under wraps ,
underground , undersea , underwater , unknown , wrapped in clouds