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

In a town in southeastern Ukraine that is occupied by Russian forces, burying the dead has actually been forbidden. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2026

Brand was also convicted of burying his head in the genitals of a former Channel 4 employee during the recording of a DVD in 2009. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026

As the twentieth century dispersed Russia’s literati, some left this nostalgic concept behind, while others trailed its shadow with them into exile, burying themselves in the great Russian novels that had formed its foundation. — Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026

In this case, overwinter your catmint by placing it under an insulating silo, burying it in the ground, or moving the container to an unheated garage. — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 4 Nov. 2026

Seoul accused North Korea of burying the mines south of the military demarcation line and demanded an apology. — Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026

The board set the ambitious goal of burying more than 100 million tons of CO2 a year by 2045, more than all the carbon that has ever been geologically stored around the world combined. — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026

Food packaging highlights healthy-sounding qualities while burying the fuller nutritional picture. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026

Cedric Von Ferdinand, 34, is accused of killing Nadine Jett and burying her remains in her Oak Creek Road property, San Diego County Dist. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026