Burial Synonyms

bĕrē-əl
Concealing something under the ground
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. last-rites
  2. interment
  3. burying
  4. obsequies
An act of placing a body in a grave or tomb
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. entombment
  2. interment
  3. inhumation
  4. sepulture
  5. barrow
  6. catacomb
  7. chamber
  8. charnel-house
  9. cromlech
  10. crypt
  11. deposition
  12. dolmen
  13. exequy
  14. funeral
  15. hypogeum
  16. mausoleum
  17. mound
  18. necropolis
  19. obsequy
  20. repository
  21. concealedness
  22. hiddenness
  23. rites
  24. sepulcher
  25. tomb
  26. reburial
  27. vault
  28. invisibility
  29. encoffinment
  30. obscurement
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. cemeterial
  2. cinerary
  3. funebrial
  4. funereal
  5. mortuary
  6. sepulchral
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. entomb

Words Related to Burial

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. show
  2. cremation
  3. cemetery
  4. unconsecrated
  5. grave-goods
  6. re-buried
  7. churchyard
  8. reinterred
  9. gravettian
  10. grave
  11. cremate

Burial Sentence Examples

  • He deserves a burial of some sort.

  • Cremation took the place of burial of the dead.

  • She was buried on Friday and Dean attended yet another burial service.

  • In one country he meets with women who, after the burial in the winter, become alive again in the spring full of youth and beauty.

  • The New Church, formerly the church of St Ursula (14th century), is the burial place of the princes of Orange.

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