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burial
/ ˈbɛrɪəl /
noun
- the act of burying, esp the interment of a dead body
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- re·buri·al noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of burial1
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Example Sentences
It was a traditional burial—the kind that the government is now battling—that led to the first outbreak.
As the burial team arrived to remove the body, he began making small movements and was found to be still alive.
Unfortunately, neither of our teams had pinpointed the pig's burial site.
“At one point they were going to perform a burial ceremony with the ashes,” he says.
"Cremation is not necessary to have safe and dignified burial," Tarik Jasarevic tells me.
Before the breath could have been well out of his body, they hoisted him up and carried him away to burial.
An undertaker waited on a gentleman, with the bill for the burial of his wife, amounting to 67l.
When all these ceremonies were finished, they carried him for burial to an isolated island, far from the mainland.
They attend to the burial of the poor, and of the bones of those who are hanged, which duty they see to once each year.
The burial of 3,000 Turks by armistice at Anzac seems to have been carried out without a hitch.
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