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. 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.

2. Jay Carver:

   This mass burial, so different to the other individual burials found in the Bedlam cemetery, is very likely a reaction to a catastrophic event, only closer analysis will tell if this is a plague pit from the Great Plague in 1665, but we hope this gruesome but exciting find will tell us more about one of London's most notorious killers.

3. Cesar Yabor:

   The technological capability to identify and verify unmarked burial sites through subsurface scanning or other means was far less robust 70 years ago, while the Corps made every effort at the time to locate unmarked burials.

4. Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews:

   Whoever had this burial was quite clearly extremely wealthy. They've been buried with the second-century equivalent of bling.

5. 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.