as in weeping
expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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as in interment
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Recent Examples of funeral
Nathan Diller, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
In the days that followed, the killing of the 32-year-old Vasquez drew extensive media coverage of the killing and asquez’s funeral, as well as a comment during a radio program by Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas that Rocha, if convicted, should receive the death penalty.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025
No funeral arrangements were immediately available.
—Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
The show is a campy, 1980s-style whodunit that begins with the funeral of a famous singer.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
In the days that followed, the killing of the 32-year-old Vasquez drew extensive media coverage of the killing and asquez’s funeral, as well as a comment during a radio program by Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas that Rocha, if convicted, should receive the death penalty.
—Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
The boy was identified as Jeremiah Gonzalez on the page, which his family started to help with funeral costs.
—Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025
No funeral arrangements were immediately available.
—Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
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
Noun
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Once the coffin was brought into the chapel with an honor guard, the archbishop blessed their remains, and each pallbearer was given a box to carry to the burial vault for interment.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Romer covers a lot — the first baseball game in Japan, how the San Francisco Seals figured into all of this, World War II, Japanese interment camps, the Giants, and more.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The atmosphere at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Glendale, Arizona, is anything but mournful.—
Amanda Castro
Mandy Taheri
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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So mournful the distant owl in Black Brooks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The most painful part, the tragedy of our lives, was that Brenda was heartbroken.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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This isn't the first time the internet has been left heartbroken when a dog didn't want to play.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Maryland officials reinterred 65 of the state's earliest settlers in a powerful ceremony more than 300 years after the settlers' first burials.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Some wear kittles, white burial shrouds, to signify repentance, according to History.—
Krys'tal Griffin,
Freep.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
Adjective
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Seventeen years is pretty old for a bourbon, but in this case the whiskey is not overtaken by bitter tannic oak notes.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
5 Oct. 2025
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But the most bitter had to be crooner Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband, who suffered the public humiliation of leaving his wife Debbie Reynolds for her (as well as their daughter Carrie), then getting dumped for Burton.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And so, with no water left at the surface, major subduction zones would grind to a halt, preventing the entombment of carbon dioxide.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Help came in the form of a shy, 15-year-old named Justin Vannelli who, on the third day of her entombment, was picking up trash along the interstate.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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