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 →

2) Put into the ground after death, in a grave. tree →

3) Covered or hidden under lots of something, like sand, snow or papers. tree →

4) Deep inside something, hard to find or notice. tree →

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 →
• The dog buried its bone in the garden. tree →
• My great-grandmother is buried in the village churchyard. tree →
• The fossils were buried in rock for millions of years. tree →
• We buried our feet in the warm sand. tree →
• The car was buried under the snow. tree →
• She buried her face in the pillow and cried. tree →
• The answer was buried at the bottom of the page. tree →
• The whole church was completely buried in sand. tree →

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.
• Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.
• Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the sea, and warmer sand makes more of the babies female.
• Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.
• Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget where they buried it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «buried» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.