From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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2. placed in a grave; as, the hastily buried corpses.
Opposite of {unburied}.
Syn: inhumed, interred.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buried
adj 1: placed in a grave; "the hastily buried corpses" [syn:
{buried}, {inhumed}, {interred}] [ant: {unburied}]
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