burial at sea

burial | American Dictionary

burial
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈber·i·əl/
the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony performed when this is done:
[ C ]We went back to Minnesota for my uncle’s burial.

Examples of burial

burial
The normal annual total of burials was in the range of thirty to thirty-five.
In all of the clothing parishes there was a net surplus of baptisms over burials between about 1560 and 1600.
Significantly, the rich burials included women as well as men.
There is no easy correlation between areas with rich burials and those where historical sources note the presence of kings, magistrates or warlords.
Why are the burials associated with the small rectangular cells, which are seen as storage spaces, and not with the supposed dwellings?
They include registers of births, marriages and burials, and probate inventories.
The reconstitution spans the years 1680-1829, and includes some 50,000 baptisms, burials and marriages, which have been linked to reconstitute some 8,700 families.
In particular, very few adult ages are given during the 1730s and 1740s, in contrast to the burials of infants and children.
Both cities saw huge population growth, and therefore had to make provision for an increased number of deaths and consequently burials.
There is illuminating discussion of the cathedral cemetery (illustrated in both modern and sixteenthcentury plans), and the possible positioning of burials in it.
The majority of the skull burials contain fewer than three objects, and only three of the 11 contexts contain obsidian.
In this scenario, offerings associated with secondary burials may represent offerings made to a group of reinterred individuals.
The secondary burials are accompanied by offerings, possibly made up of vessels exhumed from primary burials.
Most burials included only three or four vessels.
The vast majority of the burials these researchers analyzed are primary burials, and they occur below the concrete floors of residential compounds.
See all examples of burial
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withburial

burial

These are words often used in combination with burial.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

ancient burial
The bones are of a young adult and are believed to be part of an ancientburial site.
From
Wikipedia