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":

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1. Emeka Kachi:

   Most people were burned beyond recognition, we are transferring the corpses to a teaching hospital for DNA testing so that their relatives can identify them for a proper burial.

2. Christophe Snoeck:

   When it comes to light chemical elements( such as carbon and oxygen), these are heavily altered but for heavier elements such as strontium no alteration was observed, on the contrary, thanks to the high temperatures reached, the structure of the bone is modified and making the bone resistant to post-mortem exchanges with burial soil.

3. 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.

4. Melinda Hunt:

   A Hart Island burial is not disrespectful, it's a very sacred place.

5. Fabrice:

   He's so optimistic that he would buy a burial suit with a change of pants!