reburying

verb

present participle of rebury
as in reinterring

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  1. shrouding
  2. cloaking
  3. shielding
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  • Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of shrouding
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  • Props, too, to director of photography Tyson Perkins for cloaking it with moody shadows that fosters its creepy feel.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Morning Star was recorded straight to tape on a Portastudio in Stockholm and Marchenko’s current home of Berlin, cloaking everything in a thin mist of hiss.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of cloaking
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  • The Los Angeles Police Department is shielding the identity of the officer who shot and killed a golden Saint Berdoodle last month in Canoga Park, citing threats to the officer’s life.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Georgia has launched a new program aimed at protecting survivors of family and domestic violence by shielding their addresses from abusers, Caleb Groves reports.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
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