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buried
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concealed |
| Synonyms: | covered, entombed, hidden, inhumed, interred, obscured |
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay to rest after death |
| Synonyms: | consign to grave, cover up, deposit, embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hold last rites for, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inter, inurn, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away, put six feet under, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
| Antonyms: | dig out, disinter, uncover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, cover |
| Synonyms: | cache, cover up, ensconce, enshroud, hide, occult, plant, screen, secrete, shroud, stash, stow away |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
| Antonyms: | dig out, reveal, uncover |
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant in ground |
| Synonyms: | drive in, embed, engulf, implant, sink, submerge |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
| Antonyms: | dig out |
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | engross oneself |
| Synonyms: | absorb, concentrate, engage, immerse, interest, occupy, rivet, throw oneself into |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
| Main Entry: | busy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | engaged, at work |
| Synonyms: | active, already taken, assiduous, at it, buried, diligent, employed, engaged, engrossed, having a full plate, having enough on one's plate, having fish to fry, having many irons in the fire, hustling, in a meeting, in conference, in someone else's possession, in the field, in the laboratory, industrious, occupied, on assignment, on duty, on the go, overloaded, persevering, slaving, snowed, swamped, tied up, unavailable, up to one's ears, with a customer, working |
| Antonyms: | idle, quiet, unbusy, unemployed, unengaged |
| Main Entry: | concealed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, secret |
| Synonyms: | buried, cached, camouflaged, covered, covered up, covert, enshrouded, guarded, holed up, hush-hush, hushed up, incog, incognito, inconspicuous, masked, obscure, obscured, on the Q. T., perdu, planted, privy, put in the hole, recondite, screened, secreted, shrouded, stashed, tucked away, ulterior, under wraps, unseen, veiled |
| Antonyms: | bare, clear, disclosed, exposed, obvious, open, plain, revealed, shown, told, uncovered |
| Main Entry: | covert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clandestine, underhanded |
| Synonyms: | QT, buried, camouflaged, cloaked, concealed, disguised, dissembled, furtive, hidden, hush-hush, incog, incognito, masked, obscured, private, privy, secret, shrouded, stealthy, sub rosa, surreptitious, ulterior, under wraps, under-the-table, undercover, underhand, unsuspected, veiled |
| Notes: | covert (concealed, covered, hidden) is the opposite of overt (apparent, open to view, plain, public) |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, candid, frank, honest, open, overt, public, unconcealed |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
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