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burial

noun
 
🔊/ˈberiəl/
🔊/ˈberiəl/
[uncountable, countable]
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  1. the act or ceremony of burying a dead body埋葬；葬礼
    • a burial place/mound/site安葬地；坟头；坟地
    • Her body was sent home for burial.她的尸骨已运回家乡安葬。🔊🔊
    • His family insisted he should be given a proper burial.他的家人坚持应该为他举行得体的葬礼。🔊🔊
    • baptism, marriage and burial services洗礼，婚姻和埋葬服务
    Extra Examples
    • His body was returned home for burial.他的尸体已运回家乡安葬。
    • There were objections to the body's burial in consecrated ground.有人反对将这具尸体葬在圣地。
    • We want to give him a decent Christian burial.我们想给他举行一个体面的基督教式的葬礼。
    • disturbing an ancient burial site扰乱古坟场
    • preventing the body's burial in consecrated ground阻止在圣地掩埋这具尸体
    Topics Religion and festivalsc1, Life stagesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • decent
    • proper
    • Christian
    • …
    verb + burial
    • give somebody
    • attend
    • go to
    • …
    burial + verb
    • take place
    burial + noun
    • chamber
    • ground
    • mound
    • …
    preposition
    • for burial
    • burial in
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    Word OriginOld English byrgels ‘place of burial, grave’ (interpreted as plural in Middle English, hence the loss of the final -s), of Germanic origin; related to bury.