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

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

Police said the man continued to resist being handcuffed by burying his left arm under his body, so one of the officers struck him on the side of his body, which is when video of the incident that were sent to the Statesman began. — Alex Brizee july 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 July 2026

The Fever guard erupted for a game-high 27 points, burying big shot after big shot to keep Las Vegas at arm's length. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026

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

Create an In-Soil Compost System For something that falls in between an official compost heap and burying the old skins directly into the soil, Farrell suggests an in-soil composting system. — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 7 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