unburied

Examples

• All

• They leave their dead unburied.

  Alexander (2004)

• But better unburied than to lie in the wrong grave.

  Fiction book (1992)

• - The world of the unburied dead in a sky dark with ashes.

  Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

• "I cannot," she responded, "I cannot marry while my husband is unburied."

  Fiction book (1999)

• Days after death, untouched and unburied.

  Genocide (1982)

• It is an unburied corpse.

  Blog text (4)

• The body of the Prophet is still unburied, and you are disputing his successorship.

  The Lady of Heaven (2021)

• I mean, everywhere in Kafira, people promise this and the other for bereaved families while the dead are still unburied.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I see pestilence waiting to move right in to these miserable hovels... filled with unburied dead.

  The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

• People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city.

Synonyms

U

unlaid

vsunburied

• Archaic

9.9

A spirit not buried that still haunts people

describes a body or object left above ground physically not implying ritual appeasement

Antonyms

B

buried

2.7

Placed in the ground and covered with earth after death

How Buried

buried

2.7

unburied

2 7.4

exposed

1 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology