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Synonyms & Antonyms of burying
(Entry 1 of 2)
- all the grandchildren attended the burying of their grandfather in his homeland
Synonyms for burying
- burial,
- entombing,
- entombment,
- inhumation,
- interment,
- interring,
- obsequy
- (usually obsequies),
- sepulture
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of burying (Entry 2 of 2)
- he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday
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- buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident
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- if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us
Synonyms for burying
- annihilating,
- blowing away,
- bombing,
- clobbering,
- creaming,
- drubbing,
- dusting,
- flattening,
- pasting,
- routing,
- shellacking,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- smoking
- [slang],
- smothering,
- snowing under,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- tromping,
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- waxing
- [slang],
- whipping,
- whomping,
- whopping
- (or whapping),
- whupping
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- beating,
- besting,
- conquering,
- dispatching,
- hurdling,
- licking,
- mastering,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- taking,
- throwing,
- triumphing (over),
- winning (against),
- worsting
- crushing,
- knocking off,
- knocking over,
- overpowering,
- overthrowing,
- overwhelming,
- subjugating,
- upending,
- vanquishing
- acing (out),
- bettering,
- eclipsing,
- exceeding,
- outdistancing,
- outdoing,
- outfighting,
- outshining,
- outstripping,
- overtopping,
- surpassing,
- topping,
- transcending
- edging (out),
- nosing out,
- pipping
- [British]
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