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UNBURIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unburied mean? 

UNBURIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNBURIED has 1 sense:

1. not buriedplay

  Familiarity information: UNBURIED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNBURIED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not buried

Antonym:

buried (placed in a grave)


 Context examples 


Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers and that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and stark, under the Union Jack.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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