as in weeping
expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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as in interment
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Recent Examples of funeral
Lauren Brensel, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2025
In 2011, Osbourne commented to The Sunday Times about wishes for his funeral arrangements.
—Gabe Whisnant
robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Maliciously or willfully disturbing a funeral, memorial service, procession or burial ceremony.
Threatening, quarreling or challenging to fight someone, or fighting.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 16 June 2025
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Adjective
Mary Hall was quoted in a Kansas newspaper, The Salina Journal, around 1996 after attending the funeral service for one of the men whose remains were recovered almost 28 years after the incident on the mountain.
—Lauren Brensel, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2025
In 2011, Osbourne commented to The Sunday Times about wishes for his funeral arrangements.
—Gabe Whisnant
robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
Noun
April 23, 2025 But a papal funeral is a papal funeral, and those present for the funeral Mass on Saturday, along with millions watching online or on TV around the world, will still observe a solemn moment involving sumptuous Catholic pageantry.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Maliciously or willfully disturbing a funeral, memorial service, procession or burial ceremony.
Threatening, quarreling or challenging to fight someone, or fighting.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Noun
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As a result of the directive, all flags should be lowered effective immediately and remain lowered until sunset on the date of interment, which has not yet been determined, Lamont said.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
27 July 2025
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From the date of death until interment for the governor of a state, territory or possession.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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The mournful notes of taps echoed through rainy Bronx neighborhood Thursday afternoon as six New York Police Department officers shouldered the casket of one of their own: Officer Didarul Islam.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
31 July 2025
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This second feature from filmmaker Frederik Louis Hviid is well-paced, tense, lovely to look at, and threaded through with a mournful realism.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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Ak’s heartbroken family are still reeling from her death.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
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Faced with no other option, the heartbroken family surrendered Draco to the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control (DACC), despite having loved and raised him for over five years.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
20 July 2025
Noun
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Further isotopic analysis may shed light on his lifestyle and diet, along with any other possible links to other burials.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
21 July 2025
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Dixon is still in Pennsylvania, but her family wants to bring her home for a funeral and burial.—
Bella Waters,
Kansas City Star,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Despite her success as an art professor and painter, Ruth feels adrift and bitter.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
22 July 2025
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Instead of feeling defeated or bitter, choose to get better.—
Sandra Balogun,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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