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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmarked
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unmarked grave (=one that does not have anything to show where it is or who is in it)
▪ Until 1855, poor people here were buried in unmarked graves.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ They were caught on camera by amazed police officers in an unmarked car.
▪ It was an unmarked car and it now carried the three of them towards Pushkin.
▪ An unmarked car with John Law written all over it joined the black-and-whites.
▪ It happened after police in an unmarked car had been following a stolen Maestro for several minutes.
▪ Hard-nosed policemen in unmarked cars belonged to a world of violence and intimidation he had no wish to enter.
▪ No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse.
▪ They're following him in unmarked cars.
grave
▪ The bodies that disappeared into unmarked graves?
▪ His unmarked grave is just past mile 194.
▪ Somewhere in unmarked graves, deep in earth, they are anonymous.
▪ Another wasted corpse in yet another unmarked grave.
▪ The beautiful, mountainous countryside is littered with the shallow, unmarked graves of the assassinated.
police
▪ By the time the unmarked police car was thumping down the motorway to London, the sun teetered on the horizon.
▪ At 8am a convoy of vans and unmarked police cars swept out heading for the addresses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unmarked grave
▪ an unmarked police car
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 25 percent of the remaining minefields in Bosnia have been marked, leaving 45 percent still unmarked, Mazzafro said.
▪ And I scarcely think the impact would leave the globe unmarked.
▪ For example, they transport schoolchildren to events in unmarked buses, or pick them up from locations outside West Belfast.
▪ I try an unmarked door and it opens to reveal ... yes, stationery again.
▪ The Skunk Works operated as an independent community within Lockheed, its secret activities conducted behind unmarked doors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmarked

c.1400, "having been given no mark," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of mark (v.). Similar formation in Old Norse umarkaðr. Meaning "not noticed or observed" is recorded from 1530s.

Wiktionary
unmarked

a. 1 Not bearing identification. 2 free from blemishes. 3 Not noticed. 4 (context sports English) Not marked, not closely followed by a defensive player.

WordNet
unmarked
  1. adj. not having an identifying mark; "unmarked cards"; "an unmarked police car" [ant: marked]

  2. not taken into account; "his retirement was not allowed to go unmarked" [syn: overlooked, unnoted]

Usage examples of "unmarked".

According to both Amnesty International and the Muslim Brotherhood, groups of prisoners suspected of anti-government sentiments were taken from detention camps, machine-gunned en masse, and then dumped into pre-dug pits that were covered with earth and left unmarked.

The plane landed on a dusty, unmarked landing field in the desert, Atar barely visible on the dawn horizon.

Unmarked stones were generally sold in lots of much smaller carat size.

Francisco shook his head, and Angelo reached into his poncho for an unmarked glass bottle, no doubt containing chicha, the local cure for sobriety and a functioning liver.

Van Cleef had always given her unmarked, plain manila envelopes to slip her purchases into.

Friday evening, Ally Dudman was escorted out the back doors of Tayside Police Headquarters and taken to an unmarked car.

She must be buried without priest or rites or absolution, only with execration, and in unhallowed ground, her grave unmarked.

I spotted the partially blanketed figure on a foldable gurney in the extrawide unmarked van.

Two more walnut doors, one unmarked, with a mezuzah nailed to the post, the other bearing a brass plaque that said SHIRLEY M.

Duratan had objected that I could scarcely present metal branded with Alizonian markings, but Ouen, somewhat to my surprise, had sent for a casket containing unmarked silver bars, from which he carefully weighed out a fair substitution for my gold.

Nature, kinder to his senseless ashes than ever Fortune had been to the living man, is prodigal around his grave -- unmarked and unrecorded though it be -- of her flowers and verdant grasses, of her rains that fertilize, and her purifying dews.

And so I swam slowly on, waiting for my head to touch the top of the corridor, which would mean that I had reached the limit of my flight and the point where I must sink for ever to an unmarked grave.

She was thinking of seeing the long, sagging bodies of the security guards being dragged away by their arms and feet, to be buried in some shallow, unmarked grave in the wet, lonely hills.

Down on his knees, the man in front of her slid his tongue upwards from her stocking tops over the still unmarked length of her inner thighs, before running it along the length of her labia, noticeably savouring the mixed taste of her urine and her sex.

DC Jimmy Suttle took his chances on a double yellow, pulling the unmarked squad Fiesta behind a long line of cars.