Synonyms of burying

burying 1 of 2

noun

as in burial

the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place

all the grandchildren attended the burying of their grandfather in his homeland

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burial
• funeral
• interment
• entombment
• entombing
• inhumation
• interring
• sepulture
• obsequy
• embalmment
• reburial
• reinterment
• inurnment
• immurement

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exhumation
• cremation
• disinterment
• unearthing

burying

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verb

present participle of bury

1

as in interring

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea

he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday

Synonyms & Similar Words

• interring
• hiding
• entombing
• laying
• concealing
• tombing
• putting away
• hearsing
• inhuming
• enshrining
• covering
• shielding
• reburying
• obscuring
• ensconcing
• shading
• shrouding
• immuring
• enshrouding
• cloaking
• inurning
• curtaining
• reinterring
• coffining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exhuming
• unearthing
• burning
• disinterring
• cremating
• showing
• disclosing
• exposing
• discovering
• revealing
• displaying
• exhibiting
• baring
• uncoffining

2

as in concealing

to put into a hiding place

buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident

Synonyms & Similar Words

• concealing
• hiding
• secreting
• stashing
• caching
• hoarding
• ensconcing
• interring
• entombing
• squirreling (away)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• displaying
• exhibiting
• exposing
• uncovering
• revealing
• showing
• baring
• unwrapping
• unmasking
• unveiling
• flaunting
• parading
• showing off
• unearthing
• disinterring

3

as in throwing

to defeat by a large margin

if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throwing
• overcoming
• whipping
• bombing
• smothering
• flattening
• upsetting
• annihilating
• beating
• trimming
• dusting
• mastering
• pasting
• thrashing
• routing
• taking
• skinning
• destroying
• smoking
• clobbering
• tromping
• topping
• creaming
• whopping
• walloping
• blowing away
• sweeping
• waxing
• conquering
• exceeding
• succeeding
• scoring
• crushing
• surpassing
• overwhelming
• trouncing
• capping
• dispatching
• licking
• whomping
• whupping
• slaughtering
• drubbing
• eating alive
• shellacking
• beating the pants off
• running circles around
• subduing
• skunking
• subjugating
• wiping the floor with
• surmounting
• snowing under
• finishing
• overthrowing
• vanquishing
• upending
• transcending
• prevailing (over)
• outdoing
• eclipsing
• winning (against)
• besting
• outshining
• hurdling
• bettering
• triumphing (over)
• knocking over
• sinking
• overpowering
• breaking
• flourishing
• outdistancing
• outstripping
• knocking off
• excelling
• overtopping
• overmatching
• edging (out)
• worsting
• overbearing
• outfighting
• acing (out)
• pipping
• doing in
• nosing out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of burying

Noun

Eaton wildfire survivors’ anger about Southern California Edison’s burying of electric wires in Altadena boiled over Tuesday with residents calling on government officials to temporarily halt the work. — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026

According to Purina, a common quirky habit many dog owners notice is food-burying. — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025

Greenlawn was a collection of four cemeteries — the old burying ground, new burying ground or Union cemetery, Peck's Ground and Greenlawn. — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 14 Nov. 2025

The few mourners walked away beneath the crooked, treeless oaks and hickories of the Westminster Presbyterian burying ground. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025

Researchers say the burying of the hoard is not a mystery, but why the community never came back for their treasured items is another thing entirely. — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025

The burying of summer bulbs and seeds into still-cold dirt. — Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2025

Verb

Advertisement In the midst of the tit-for-tat strikes, Iran is burying the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday, in the holy city of Mashhad, after days of public mourning ceremonies. — Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 July 2026

The aggrieved front-line workers also include safety and security teams, those that often embark on community outreach as well as those burying patients who died from Ebola. — ABC News, 8 July 2026

The game was awful, and Atari ended up burying (at least) hundreds of thousands of the unsold cartridges in the New Mexico desert. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

This is not a problem that can be solved by simply taxing the rich or burying the federal government much deeper in debt. — Jessica Riedl, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

No mother should endure the agony of cremation and/or burying their child. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 1 July 2026

It’s been over three decades since Wood was convicted of murdering six young women and girls and burying their bodies near El Paso – crimes for which he was nicknamed the Desert Killer. — Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 1 July 2026

Despite the lack of goals, the game was exciting with end-to-end runs and missed chances that left fans of both teams groaning and burying their heads in their hands. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

The company didn't make any big announcement; instead burying this information in a support article. — Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026