burial
/ˈbɛɹi.əl/ noun B2- The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth. · His whole family was present at his burial.· The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.
Plural burials
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We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Château d’If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment.”
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