BURIED Synonyms: 195 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in hidden

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verb

past tense of bury

as in interred

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday

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as in concealed

to put into a hiding place buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident

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as in bombed

to defeat by a large margin if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us

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First, Protas buried a cross-zone feed from Alex Ovechkin to give Washington the 2-1 lead. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 The grave contained no grave goods — objects buried alongside the dead — but archaeologists were able to estimate its age based on the skeleton's crouched position and the grave's relationship to the nearby settlement and one of its houses. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Their deaths had been concealed, and their remains buried on site. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 16 Oct. 2026 My irritation was not with the charge itself but with how some of the commentaries about it invoked as evidence Vance’s wish to be buried in the country graveyard where generations of his ancestors already rest. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 Among those buried there is Major Thomas Jones, the 18th-century landowner for whom Jones Beach is named. — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 The newer move is pulling structured database tables into that same pipeline, so an application can combine the fact sitting in the ledger with the detail buried in the document, rather than being forced to pick one. — Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 It is designed to help prepare someone for a meeting, find a flight confirmation buried in an inbox, or help interpret health data collected by an Apple Watch. — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 The inspiration buried here is that, if nothing else, the Gators adjusted. — Noah White, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

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Anthropic’s work even shows that internal signals can reveal when a model suspects it’s being tested, detects manipulation or is pursuing a hidden objective.

— Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Gardner pleaded guilty to placing a hidden camera in a bathroom at a gymnastics studio in Purvis, Mississippi, between December 2017 and April 2018 to record his students.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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The spores inside him are alive and well and ready to spread should his unpreserved body be interred in the soil.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Following the service, the King will be interred in the Royal Mausoleum at Akershus Fortress, alongside the late King Haakon VII, Queen Maud, King Olav V & Crown Princess Märtha.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

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In an interview with Inside Edition on Tuesday, store owner Adam Rubin said that his store has been review-bombed since Clarkson took to social media and named the store, and employees and surrounding businesses have been harassed.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
The Houthis bombed the corporate HQ of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, officials said.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

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Khan’s spokesperson, Zulfiquar Bukhari, condemned the suspension of the provincial government, calling it a disguised coup.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Voting rights advocates argue that requirements to present birth certificates or passports in order to register to vote is a disguised effort to make voting more difficult, depressing turnout and in effect disenfranchising voters.

— Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2026

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After learning that Manchester whipped Maggie with a cat-o’-nine-tails, Lizzie agrees to help the Borden family’s maid kill her.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
That sort of whipped, inswinging ball from Slater that caused so much havoc is hugely familiar to avid Premier League watchers.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of whipped

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However, for many years, the appearance of the mysterious orbital cannon remained shrouded in mystery.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026
The deals remain shrouded in secrecy, records show, because they were signed under an unusual contracting method the Defense Department uses to fund experimental weapons — work A&M has never claimed to do.

— Aaron Davis, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of shrouded

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Jeans were smothered in coral at Dolce & Gabbana and festooned with feathers and appliqués at Roberto Cavalli.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026
Officials spotted the ball 1 1/2 yards from the goal line and UCLA’s defense smothered rusher Jordon Davison to thwart the Ducks' second chance.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026

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