to rebury

Examples

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• In 2008, he dug a section of the site again to help rebury the human remains.

  Academic text (2009)

• With their field season ending, Alp and Meneses reburied the paintings to protect them from the weather and potential looters.

  Academic text (2011)

• "But they told us we had to recover everything in one day so they could rebury the body the next day."

  Academic text (2010)

• But even though many will be reburied without study, the loss of scientific data needs to be kept in perspective.

  Academic text (2011)

• At the request of families, some of these remains have been reburied elsewhere since 1989.

  Academic text (2000)

• Alice was reburied two days later, on the 7th of June.

  Lake Mungo (2009)

• Eventually, Pearson won that battle, and the remains were reburied.

  Academic text (2005)

• The San Xavier Bridge Site burials and associated grave goods were ultimately reburied by the Tohono O'Odham Nation in September 1986.

  Academic text (1990)

• Local tribes want the bones to be reburyed and left alone for religious reasons.

• Theresa says she would like to rebury her sisters and put names on their headstones.

Synonyms

R

to reinter

vsto rebury

1 8.6

To bury a dead body again in a new grave or place

refers to putting something or someone into the ground again after exhumation

How Formal

to entomb

12 8.1

to reinter

1 8.6

to rebury

3 6.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology