Unburied
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unburied is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of unbury.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of unbury.
More Meanings
- Not having been buried.
Example Sentences
In the direction away from the pit I saw, beyond a red-covered wall, a patch of garden ground unburied.
Titus, unkind and careless of thine own, Why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet, To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?
In the first place, I desire, that my body may lie unburied three days after my decease, or till the pleasure of my father be known concerning it.
1696, Arthur Gorges (translator), “The SYRENS, or Pleasures” in The Wisdom of the Ancients (De Sapientia Veterum, 1609) by Francis Bacon, p. 95, And so great were the mischiefs they did, that these Isles of the Syrens, even as far off as Man can ken them, appeared all over white with the Bones of unburied Carcasses.
Antonyms for unburied
Common opposites include interred, buried, inhumed, angling.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include buried, uninterred, unexhumed, unsepultured, uninhumed, uninurned.
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