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BURIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Placed in a grave
Example:
the hastily buried corpses
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
belowground (underneath the ground)
Antonym:
unburied (not buried)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bury
Context examples:
The fog had now buried all heaven.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Why so large a coffin for so small a body? To leave room for another body. Both would be buried under the one certificate.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“He must be buried here,” he said, hearkening to the sound.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When locus coeruleus cells were activated, the mice remembered where the food was buried 24 hours later.
(How novelty boosts memory retention, NIH)
The planet, Gliese 3470 b (also known as GJ 3470 b), may be a cross between Earth and Neptune, with a large rocky core buried under a deep, crushing hydrogen-and-helium atmosphere.
(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)
Heavy objects like cars sink into the muck, while buried water and sewer pipes rise to the surface.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
The ridges were active 150 million years ago and are now buried by mile-thick layers of sediment.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
Buried water ice changes the temperature of the Martian surface.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
Dragon's Breath Cave, the largest non-subglacial underground lake on Earth, is buried there.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.
(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)
