What does unburied mean?
Unburied means simple past and past participle of unbury.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
simple past and past participle of unbury.
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.
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.
In the direction away from the pit I saw, beyond a red-covered wall, a patch of garden ground unburied.
Use unburied when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unburied means simple past and past participle of unbury.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include interred, buried, inhumed, angling.
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.
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