Synonyms for burial
ˈbɛr i əlburi·al

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1. burial

   Synonyms:
   interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment

   Antonyms:
   exhumation, disinterment

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1. burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulturenoun

   the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

   Synonyms:
   burial chamber, sepulture, entombment, sepulcher, sepulchre, interment, burying, inhumation

2. burying, burialnoun

   concealing something under the ground

   Synonyms:
   interment, burying, inhumation, entombment, sepulture

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1. burialnoun

   Synonyms:
   interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment, burying

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1. burialnoun

   Synonyms:
   interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment

   Antonyms:
   disinterment, exhumation

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1. List of paraphrases for "burial":

   interment, funeral, landfilling, landfill, buried, burying, mortuary, bury, landfill, embedment, funerary, cemetery, grave, burials, gravesite, glum

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1. List of known nicknames for "Burial":

   William Bevan

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1. Eufemia Garcia:

   I'm not going to give up until I have a part of my family and am able to give them a Christian burial.

2. Phil Stone:

   The whole point was if Richard's remains were found Richard III would get the dignified and honorable burial Richard III was denied in 1485.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   Many of these families because of Covid don't have money for a proper funeral and a proper burial. And that is just awful and inhumane.

4. Lesley Gordon:

   Many of the survivors made a point of insisting when anyone in their regiment died they provided a reverent burial.

5. Stephen Breyer:

   We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally -- more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls' rectal rehydration,' but as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.