 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
buried
adjective
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}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bury
verb
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}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
buried
See {bury}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bury \Bur"y\, verb (used with an object) [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.
And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton.
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.
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
--Matt. viii.
21.
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak.
3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
to bury strife.
Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak.
{Burying beetle} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
overwhelm; repress.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
buried \buried\ adjective
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]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "buried":
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
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