buriedadj.
/ˈbɛrɪd/ 1.
a. Laid in a grave, interred.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > buried
yburied1297
buriedc1440
interredc1440
dowenc1450
tumulate1455
humate1511
graveda1547
ingraved1586
inhumed1610
entombed1626
sepult1898
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 37 Byryyde [1499 biryed], sepultus.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 159 That did her buried body hould.
1844 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. 388 In company of buried kindred.
b. Laid, sunk, or concealed under ground. buried treasure; also figurative and attributive.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > covered over > under the ground
buried1720
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > hoarded wealth > treasure > other types of
buried treasure1801
1720 A. Pope Verses Addison's Medals in Wks. 10 Some bury'd marble half preserves a name.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iii. 115 Some open rocks and mountains, and lay bare Their buried treasures.
1851 (title) Buried treasures. Part I. The law of liberty: a letter on toleration, by John Locke. Part II. Milton ‘on the civil power in ecclesiastical causes’.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 9 A flint instrument from below a buried trunk of one of these pines.
1886 A. Symons Introd. Browning Pref. Criticism is..a hazel-switch for the discovery of buried treasure.
1896 H. James in Cosmopolis I. 390 Vereker's secret..the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure.
1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet ii. 42 ‘I believe it is a buried treasure,’ he cried... I wonder what you would say if you suddenly came upon a buried treasure?
1964 Times 11 Feb. 12/7 Catalogues..have a buried-treasure charm.
2. transferred and figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten
out of memorya1275
of minda1325
out of mindc1325
forlainc1330
unrememberedc1425
oblivious1535
forgotten1600
unretained1666
unrecollected1733
unrecalled1742
buried1806
evanished1829
unmemoried1829
unrevived1877
spark out1882
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > as with earth
obrute1628
buried1806
1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. i. 54 How they, buried in an obscure corner of the earth, dared to oppose.
1812 Ld. Byron And thou art Dead in To Thyrza 71 More thy buried love endears Than aught, except its living years.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxix. 186 Sad Hesper [watches] o'er the buried sun. View more context for this quotation
Compounds
buried-alive adj.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > buried > buried-alive
buried-alive1851
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxviii. 382 Poor, buried-alive Tashtego.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 6 June in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. xvi. 131 A resurrection of a buried-alive friendship.
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