as in interment
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as in weeping
expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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Recent Examples of funeral
Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
His funeral service will be held in Mission Hills, Calif., on Tuesday, May 20, at 10 a.m. local time.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 15 May 2025
Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The announcement follows a weekend of prayer and reflection at the Vatican, where world leaders and the faithful gathered on Saturday for a funeral mass.
—Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Old college friends have been brought together for a funeral.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
His funeral service will be held in Mission Hills, Calif., on Tuesday, May 20, at 10 a.m. local time.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
The obituary adds that a visitation service is set for Tuesday, April 29, and a funeral mass is set for Wednesday, April 30.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The announcement follows a weekend of prayer and reflection at the Vatican, where world leaders and the faithful gathered on Saturday for a funeral mass.
—Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Noun
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Read More: Global Leaders Offer Tributes to Pope Francis According to AP, interment of the pope takes place between the fourth and sixth day after his death.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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In Little Rock, services were held at Second Presbyterian Church with interment at Roselawn Memorial Cemetery.—
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22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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The slow, mournful piano chords capture the somber bite of the scene with remarkable punch yet also a sobering stillness, and that’s before the elegiac words carry the song off into the sky.—
Daniel Dylan Wray,
Pitchfork,
8 May 2025
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Wynette’s mournful lyrics about a partner who has left—will one protagonist leave the other during the game’s main campaign?—to the sound of lonely, sad acoustic country music is the flip side of Wang Chung’s carefree spirit.—
Brady Gerber,
Vulture,
7 May 2025
Noun
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What is especially noticeable is that, despite this being a time of high levels of obstetric death there is only evidence of a handful of mother-infant burials from this period.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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In the cremation burial, researchers also discovered a small vase painted with red bands and spiral patterns.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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After everyone left, her husband apologized for his mother’s absence and thanked her for her hard work, but the experience left her heartbroken.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
8 May 2025
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Stacy Melo, an east Arlington resident, told the City Council that she was left heartbroken and shocked the last time TotalEnergies came before council.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 May 2025
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Where Silverman radically departs from Strindberg’s bitter play is in their portrait of Tekla, who is a spikily delightful self-starter instead of the idiot-monster of the original.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
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Still, Levi isn’t bitter and blames the reporter for trying to use Gunn to publicly shame him.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
22 May 2025
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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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