Leaving an unburied corpse behind is profanity.
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Unburied
Synonyms for "unburied" (2 found)
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Translations
8 translations across 6 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄταφος adj (not having been buried)
German
1 entries- unbegraben adj (not having been buried)
Greek
1 entries- άθαφτος adj (not having been buried)
Hungarian
1 entries- temetetlen adj (not having been buried)
Latin
2 entries- insepultus adj (not having been buried)
- intumulatus adj (not having been buried)
Manx
2 entries- gyn oanluckey adj (not having been buried)
- neuoanluckit adj (not having been buried)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
"But, lifting features marvellously pale, / the ghost unburied in her dreams laid bare / his breast, and showed the altar and the bale / wrought by the ruthless steel, and solved the crime's dark tale."
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Titus, unkind and careless of thine own, Why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet, To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?
Source: wiktionary
1696, Arthur Gorges (translator), “The SYRENS, or Pleasures” in The Wisdom of the Ancients (De Sapientia Veterum, 1609) by Francis Bacon, p. 95, And so great were the mischiefs they did, that these Isles of the Syrens, even as far off as Man can ken them, appeared all over white with the Bones of unburied Carcasses.
Source: wiktionary
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