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# burial

«burial» in Mova's school dictionary: **The act of putting a dead body in the ground or a grave** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a burial, burials); verb bury (buried)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The act of putting a dead body in the ground or a grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#m1)

2) A ceremony when a dead person is buried; a funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#m2)

3) Putting something under the ground (the burial of rubbish or treasure). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons: ancient burials, burial mounds, burial grounds tell us how people lived. In stories and family life: a burial after someone has «passed away». Phrases: burial ground, burial site, burial at sea.

### examples

- The burial took place in the village churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x1)
- Archaeologists found a Viking burial site. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x2)
- The Egyptians built pyramids for royal burials. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x3)
- Some sailors have a burial at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x4)
- The family gathered for Grandpa's burial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x5)
- The burial of waste can harm the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x6)
- He went to a festival, but it was a burial feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/#x7)

### note

Spelling: bur-i-al, from bury (y changes to i). Pronounced BERR-ee-ul, like «berry». Different from cremation (burning the body). Gentle words around death: «laid to rest».

### In the corpora

- [Some fossils catch a moment, such as a fish with another fish in its mouth, because fast burial froze the scene.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/15/)
- [In many Muslim families the funeral and burial happen very quickly, often within a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family/43/)
- [In a burial the coffin is lowered into a grave in a cemetery or churchyard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/5/)
- [He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.602/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «burial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.