Antonyms for burial
ˈbɛr i əlburi·al

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1. burial

   Antonyms:
   exhumation, disinterment

   Synonyms:
   interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment

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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

   Antonyms:
   disinterment, exhumation

   Synonyms:
   interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment

How to use burial in a sentence?

1. Another British archaeologist:

   Without all this distracting color you can see all sort of things. You can see lines that indicate corners of cut walls, and these are the things that I noticed first, if I'm right, this is simply part of the entrance to the tomb of Nefertiti. The tomb, I think, continues beyond this wall. There will be a burial chamber beyond there.

2. Melinda Hunt:

   A decent burial does not involve prison inmates burying your loved one.

3. Tereza Ferreira Nascimento:

   We don't have strength to even cry any more. We keep coming to try to find the body, so we can have a burial.

4. Miklos Heisler:

   We try to do the burial so it sends a message to society, when these bones were found nobody could be sure they were all Jewish; probably some are not ... If remains of Jews and Goyim (non-Jews) are found together they must be put to rest together.

5. Vasant Shinde:

   They were intimately placed in the burial, so we thought maybe they shared [ a ] very intimate relationship.

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