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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
buried
    adj 1: placed in a grave; "the hastily buried corpses" [syn:
           buried, inhumed, interred] [ant: unburied]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. placed in a grave; as, the hastily buried corpses.
      Opposite of unburied.

   Syn: inhumed, interred.
        [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

            And all their confidence
            Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

            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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
        overwhelm; repress.
        [1913 Webster] Burying ground

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