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burial

/ber-ee-uhl/US // ˈbɛr i əl //UK // (ˈbɛrɪəl) //

安葬,埋葬,葬送,葬礼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or ceremony of burying.
    • : the place of burying; grave.

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Examples

  • The first significant climb on the course is alternatively referred to as Vault or Cemetery Hill—a reminder that before it became a public park, this land served as the private burial grounds for the Van Cortlandt family.

  • “Jewish custom insists on prompt burial…a consideration of particular relevance in hot climates,” the authoritative Encyclopaedia Judaica explains.

  • Funerals can be delayed when the death falls on the Sabbath – a day of rest in the Jewish faith when no burials are performed – or on a Jewish holiday.

  • She already owned a burial plot that had a tombstone engraved with her name and birth date.

  • Congress enacted it in 1990 to protect and safely relocate native burial sites.

  • It was a traditional burial—the kind that the government is now battling—that led to the first outbreak.

  • As the burial team arrived to remove the body, he began making small movements and was found to be still alive.

  • Unfortunately, neither of our teams had pinpointed the pig's burial site.

  • “At one point they were going to perform a burial ceremony with the ashes,” he says.

  • "Cremation is not necessary to have safe and dignified burial," Tarik Jasarevic tells me.

  • Before the breath could have been well out of his body, they hoisted him up and carried him away to burial.

  • An undertaker waited on a gentleman, with the bill for the burial of his wife, amounting to 67l.

  • When all these ceremonies were finished, they carried him for burial to an isolated island, far from the mainland.

  • They attend to the burial of the poor, and of the bones of those who are hanged, which duty they see to once each year.

  • The burial of 3,000 Turks by armistice at Anzac seems to have been carried out without a hitch.