buried

Verb

Verb Forms: bury, buries, buried, burying

• Covered or hid something, often underground.
• cover from sight
  • "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
• place in a grave or tomb
  • "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"
• place in the earth and cover with soil
  • "They buried the stolen goods"
• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
• embed deeply
  • "He buried his head in her lap"
• dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
• simple past and past participle of bury

Adjective

• Covered or concealed, often in the ground; hidden.
• placed in a grave
  • "the hastily buried corpses"

Adj

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

Examples

• He BURIED his opponent’s last good play with a blocking word, ensuring victory.
• His hopes of winning were buried under a pile of unplayable tiles.

Synonyms

bury, eat up, entomb, forget, immerse, inhume, inhumed, inter, interred, lay to rest, sink, swallow, swallow up

Antonyms

remember, unburied

Anagrams of buried