verb
1 dead person
PHRASES
▪ be dead and buried
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Those people are now all dead and buried.
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Their ambitions were finally dead and buried. ( figurative )
▪ ~ sb alive , lie buried , remain buried ( often figurative )
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The king lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.
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What secrets lie buried in the past?
2 hide in the ground
ADVERB
▪ deep
▪ underground
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The waste is buried deep underground.
3 cover
ADVERB
▪ completely
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a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass
▪ partially
PHRASES
▪ be buried alive
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The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.
▪ buried beneath sth , buried under sth
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The building was now buried under ten feet of soil.
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Your letter got buried under a pile of papers.
▪ be buried up to your chin in sth , be buried up to your neck in sth , etc.
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He was buried up to his neck in sand.
4 put sth deeply into sth
ADVERB
▪ deep , deeply
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He slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest.
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her deeply buried pain ( figurative )
Bury is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ ash , ↑ body , ↑ egg , ↑ face , ↑ father , ↑ feeling , ↑ head , ↑ memory , ↑ mine , ↑ myth , ↑ news , ↑ remains , ↑ treasure , ↑ victim , ↑ waste