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burying

noun B2
  1. A burial. (countable, uncountable)

Plural buryings

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Sitting down on a chair by the table, flinging her arms out upon it, and burying her face in them, she proceeded to cry stormily.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 30 · C1
Elizabeth was chiefly struck with his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 70 · B2
This solitary place was precisely suited to the requirements of a man desirous of burying treasure.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 249 · C1
Billions of tons of pulverized topsoil were swept up into towering clouds that rolled aggressively across the landscape, burying fences and houses.
The Dust Bowl: An Ecological Catastrophe, p. 1 · C1

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