unburied
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unbury
Example Sentences
- "Titus, unkind and careless of thine own, Why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet, To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?"
- "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."
- "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."