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 overcoming

to defeat by a large margin

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

One such detail is the prospect of a Gallagher-brothers-style burying of the hatchet for Harry and Prince William. — Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 21 Aug. 2026

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

Mexican cartels began using explosives more extensively about five years ago, dropping them from drones to attack security forces or rival groups and burying explosive devices in the ground to defend or control territory. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Families are burying victims while relatives of the missing wait for answers, as authorities detain the captain, crew and port officials in a widening probe into the disaster’s cause. — Andrew Wilks, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

The mountains above had unleashed a cataclysmic, deluge that swept 62 miles (100 km) downstream, killing hundreds and burying entire communities in the worst natural disaster to hit Nepal in years. — Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

The floods began when a glacier collapsed into a valley, blocking a river and causing water levels to surge some 30 feet in just 30 minutes, burying people and communities in mud. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

Researchers aren’t suggesting that the easiest method to assess your garden’s wellbeing is by burying a pair of underwear. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2026

The 19-year-old left-hander could not get out of the first inning, burying low Single-A Lake Elsinore early in a 21-2 loss to visiting San José. — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

Sir Philip Sidney, courtier, poet, and fervent Protestant soldier under Queen Elizabeth I, had been fighting Catholic Spain in the Netherlands when a bullet struck him, burying itself deep in the flesh of his thigh. — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026

After burying Shanann in a shallow grave, Chris killed Bella and Celeste. — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026