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Another word for burial

Noun

  1. An act of placing a body in a grave or tomb

    2. See also:

    show

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Another word for burial

Noun
    2. See also:

    funeral

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Cremation took the place of burial of the dead.

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

  • He deserves a burial of some sort.

  • New burial ages.

  • 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.

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