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Burial

//ˈbɛɹɪəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth. countable, uncountable

    "His whole family was present at his burial."

  2. 2
    concealing something under the ground wordnet
  3. 3
    the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English beriel, a backformation from Old English byrġels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.

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