burial
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++bur·i·al /ˈberiəl/ ●●○ noun [countable, uncountable] 1. MXthe act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave 埋葬；葬礼2 the act of burying something in the ground 〔某物的〕掩埋burial of the burial of solid waste 掩埋粪便Examples from the Corpus
burial• The price of a more elaborate service and burial looks to be £17,000.• Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.• The patina the bronzes had acquired during burial was much admired, and people assumed that they had originally been patinated.• The tilting of the layers tells us of a period of gentle deformation that followed burial of the sediments.• Interor intra-mural burials were not typically observed within the houses of the Indus cities.• The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial.• Still, I feel certain our days at the burial site are numbered.• However, the survival of certain types of artefact is as much the result of various factors prior to burial as to post-depositional processes.Origin burial (1400-1500) burial “place where a body is buried” ((13-17 centuries)), from Old English byrgelsbur·i·al nounChineseSyllable
ceremony into a Corpus body or putting of the act dead
burial
bur‧i‧al /ˈberiəl/
noun [uncountable and countable]
2. the act of burying something in the ground
burial of
the burial of solid waste
bur‧i‧al /ˈberiəl/
noun [uncountable and countable] Date: 1400-1500
Origin: burial 'place where a body is buried' (13-17 centuries), from Old English byrgels
1. the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a graveOrigin: burial 'place where a body is buried' (13-17 centuries), from Old English byrgels
2. the act of burying something in the ground
burial of