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   Bur·i·al

   /ˈberēəl/

   

   noun

   • 1. the action or practice of interring a dead body: "his remains were shipped home for burial"
   • ▪ a ceremony at which someone's body is interred; a funeral: "burial rites"
   • ▪ a grave or the remains found in it: "burial mounds"

   Word Origin Old Englishbyrgels ‘place of burial, grave’ (interpreted as plural in Middle English, hence the loss of the final -s), of Germanic origin; related to bury.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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