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Definition: Unburied |
UnburiedAdjective1. Not buried. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unburied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Antonym: buried (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Corpse | Adjective: cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unburied |
| English words defined with "unburied": Graveless ♦ Intumulated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unburied": GRAVES REGISTRATION SPECIALIST. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It can be a peace of plenty and content, or a peace of unburied dead: the choice is yours. (Colossus: The Forbin Project; writing credit: James Bridges; D.F. Jones) | |
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![]() | The war in Virginia - Officers and men of Meade's army discovering unburied Union dead on the old battlefield of Bull Run / from a sketch by our special artist, Edwin Forbes. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Cold Harbor, Va., vicinity. Unburied dead on the battlefield of Gaines' mill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The commissions are free to carry out exhumations and collect unburied mortal remains in territory under the authority of another majority ethnic group using an established notification system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unburied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unburied" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the unburied | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unburied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hautaamaton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | non enterré. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | unbegraben. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | άταφοσ, άθαφτοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuoanluckit, gyn oanluckey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriedunbay gömülmemiş (graveles). (various references) không chôn cất bị đ o lên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inhumatus, insepultos, insepultus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Unburied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unblurred, unbored, unbred, unbribed, Unbuild. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-n-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: beduin, binder, brined, burden, burdie, buried, burned, burnie, inbred, inured, rebind, rubied, ruined, unbred. | |
-3 letters: bider, bride, brine, bruin, burin, diner, indue, inure, nuder, nudie, rebid, redub, unbid, under, undue, urine. | |
-4 letters: bedu, bend, bide, bier, bind, bine, bird, bred, bren, brie, brin, bund, burd, burn, deni, dine, dire, drib, drub, dune, dure. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-n-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: unbruised. | |
+2 letters: burgundies. | |
+3 letters: unburdening, underbuying, undisturbed. | |
+4 letters: suburbanised, suburbanized, unattributed, underbudding. | |
+5 letters: outrebounding, rubicundities, subindustries, undistributed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 62 75 72 69 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -... ..- .-. .. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100010 01110101 01110010 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n b u r i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0062 0075 0072 0069 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580688784757170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, tiếng Phần-lan |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, Greagish, Greagagh, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, man adası, man dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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