buried

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bury.

   The villagers buried their dead on the hillside above the church.

   She had buried the old letters at the back of a drawer years ago.

   Note

   One spelling does the work of two forms, and the y of bury turns to i before the ending, as in carried and married. With have it forms the perfect (she has buried the letters), and with be it forms the passive (the letters were buried). The verb's figurative range carries over. A voice can be buried under louder sounds, and someone who has buried two husbands has, humorously, outlived them.

   She has buried three husbands and still dances every Saturday.

   The vocals were buried under a wall of guitars.

2. 2
   adjective

   Placed in a grave and covered with earth as part of a burial.

   The buried remains were exhumed for a forensic examination.

   Soldiers killed in the battle lay buried beneath the field for decades.

   Similarinterred

3. 3
   adjective

   Concealed or hidden from view, often deep beneath something else.

   The buried cables run several feet below the road surface.

   The most important detail was buried in the report's footnotes.

   Similarhidden, concealed, underground

   Oppositeexposed, visible

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