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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.
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    Definition of burial in English Dictionary

  • NounPLburialsSUF-ial
    1. The act of burying; interment.
    2. More Examples
      1. 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.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
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      1. en buriall
      2. en burials
      3. en burialls
      4. en burial case
      5. en burial mound
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of burial for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "burial" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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