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# unburied

«unburied» in Mova's school dictionary: **not put into a grave; still lying above the ground after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Unburied means not put into a grave; still lying above the ground after death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unburied/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a dead body left unburied is a great wrong, and someone must bury it

### examples

- Antigone could not bear that her brother should lie unburied. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unburied/#x1)
- The dead man lay unburied in the robbers' inn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unburied/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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