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

In Bosnia, people are still identifying and burying their dead 31 years after the Srebrenica massacre. — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

For the three children of the stranger who had returned to seek refuge, fifteen years had passed between the collective joy of independence and the personal tragedy of burying their father in a graveyard already full of their uncles’ memories. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

Still, the company says that isn't stopping them from burying miles of line across the state. — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

Some say that this is partly because both miners and coal companies deliberately hid these figures, secretly burying their dead in the mountains, so as not to show weakness to the enemy. — Elijah Tanall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

All were killed while evacuating the Marriott World Trade Center hotel as the North Tower collapsed, burying the building and the fire truck in the destruction. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 27 July 2026

RiverLink is closely aligned with Hartford 400, a grand, sweeping vision for reconnecting the city with its riverfront by moving, burying or capping highways. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026

Researchers think the moon is blanketed by porous layers of volcanic ash, sulfur frost and other eruptive debris that continually resurface Io, burying older terrain beneath fresh deposits. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 24 July 2026

The landslide occurred in Pengshui County on Friday morning on the outskirts of Chongqing municipality, when massive amounts of rocks and soil washed down a slope, burying more than 10 residential buildings, state broadcaster CCTV said. — ABC News, 18 July 2026