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  • 1. burial
  • Rhymes with Burial
  • Burial in a sentence
  • Quotes about Burial
  • 2. burial
Table of Contents
  • 1. burial
  • Rhymes with Burial
  • Burial in a sentence
  • Quotes about Burial
  • 2. burial
Synonyms
Etymology

1. burial

noun. ['ˈbɛriːəl'] the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.

Synonyms

  • interment
  • entombment
  • inhumation
  • sepulture

Etymology

  • byrgels (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

Rhymes with Burial

  • secretarial
  • adversarial
  • actuarial
  • malarial
  • mariel
  • ariel
  • aerial

Sentences with burial


1. Noun, singular or mass
In water burial, the body is wrapped with white cloth and submerged in a river.

2. Adjective
Funeral directors physically prepare a body for burial and help individuals through an important part of the grieving process.

Quotes about burial


1. I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
- Rosamund Lupton, Sister

2. burial

noun. ['ˈbɛriːəl'] concealing something under the ground.

Synonyms

  • concealment
  • hiding
  • burying
  • reburial
  • concealing

Etymology

  • byrgels (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
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