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# buried

«buried» in Mova's school dictionary: **Put into a hole in the ground and covered with earth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past and past participle of «bury» (bury, buries, buried, burying); adjective (buried)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Put into a hole in the ground and covered with earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#m1)

2) Put into the ground after death, in a grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#m2)

3) Covered or hidden under lots of something, like sand, snow or papers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#m3)

4) Deep inside something, hard to find or notice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history and stories, pirates buried treasure and people were buried in graves or tombs; archaeologists dig up buried things to learn about the past. In science, fossils are what is left of plants and animals buried in rock long ago; seeds are buried in soil to grow. In safety, snow or sand can bury a person, which is very dangerous. Phrases: «buried treasure», «buried in», «be buried alive», «bury your face in».

### examples

- The pirates buried the treasure on the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x1)
- The dog buried its bone in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x2)
- My great-grandmother is buried in the village churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x3)
- The fossils were buried in rock for millions of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x4)
- We buried our feet in the warm sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x5)
- The car was buried under the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x6)
- She buried her face in the pillow and cried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x7)
- The answer was buried at the bottom of the page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x8)
- The whole church was completely buried in sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/#x9)

### note

«Bury» is pronounced like «berry»; «buried» like «berried». Spelling: y → ie before -ed: bury, buried. Don't confuse with «berry» (a fruit). Never dig deep holes in sand at the beach: the sides can fall in and bury you.

### In the corpora

- [They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/)
- [Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/0/)
- [Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the sea, and warmer sand makes more of the babies female.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/7/)
- [Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/8/)
- [Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget where they buried it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «buried» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buried/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.