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[ adjective ] covered from view

Synonyms

hidden

Examples

"her face buried (or hidden) in her hands" "a secret buried deep within herself"

Used in print

(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)

Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface ; often the shifts cannot be seen , but they are there ; and everywhere can be found scars of earlier breaks once deeply buried .

In the search for oil and gas , we make similar waves under controlled conditions with dynamite and learn from them where there are buried rock structures favorable to the accumulation of these resources .

Related terms

concealed

2
[ adjective ] placed in a grave

Synonyms

interred inhumed

Examples

"the hastily buried corpses"

Related terms

unburied belowground

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