unburied
/ʌnˈbɛrɪd
/adjective
(Especially of a dead body) not buried.He ordered her to cast his unburied body into the middle of the public square....
- The fighting was some of the worst in the war, with wounded being hit again as they lay on stretchers, and the smell of unburied bodies polluting the position.
- A few months later other concentration camps are liberated - among them Bergen-Belsen, where thousands of unburied bodies are strewn over the ground.
