Entry Word: burial

Function: noun

Meaning: the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place <the children wanted to give the dead bird a proper burial in the backyard>

Synonyms burying, entombing, entombment, interment, interring, sepulture

Related Words embalmment, funeral

Near Antonyms cremation

Antonyms disinterment, exhumation, unearthing