burial meaning
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- Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objects in it, and covering it over.
- NounPLburialsSUF-ial
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of burial in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en buriall
- en burials
- en burialls
- en burial case
- en burial mound
Source: Wiktionary