| Main Entry: | obsequy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funeral ceremony |
Synonyms: |
eulogy, funeral rite, funeral service |
| Main Entry: | obsequies |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rites |
Synonyms: |
ceremony, funeral, service |
| Main Entry: | burial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laying in of dead body |
Synonyms: |
burying, deep six, deposition, entombment, exequies, funeral, inhumation, interment, last rites, obsequies, sepulture |
| Main Entry: | funeral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony for the dead |
Synonyms: |
burial, cremation, entombment, exequies, funeration, inhumation, interment, last rites, obit, obsequies, planting, requiem, sepulture, services, solemnities |
Antonyms: |
baptism, christening |
| Main Entry: | interment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial |
Synonyms: |
burying, entombment, funeral, inhumation, inurning, obsequy, sepulture |
| Notes: | interment is burial; internment is detention |
| Main Entry: | wake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal observance of a body before funeral |
Synonyms: |
deathwatch, funeral service, last rites, obsequies, rites, vigil, watch |
| Main Entry: | last rites |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rites performed for death |
Synonyms: |
burial service, exequies, extreme unction, funeral ceremony, funeral rites, funeral service, last duty, last honors, last offices, memorial service, obsequies, sacrament of the sick, viaticum, visitation of the sick |
| Main Entry: | inhumation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial |
Synonyms: |
burying, deep six, deposition, entombment, exequies, funeral, interment, last rites, obsequies, sepulture |
| Concept: | Interment. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
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-nouns
interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation., funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge (lamentation); cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph., graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement., coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn., grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence., sexton, gravedigger., monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori; hatchment, stone., exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination; zoothapsis.
-verbs
inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mumify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn., exhume, disinter, unearth.
-adjectives
burried; burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic.
-adverbs
in memoriam; post obit, post mortem; beneath the sod.
-phrases
hic jacet, ci-git; RIP; requiescat in pace; "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep" [Shelley]; "without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown" [Byron]; "in the dark union of insensate dust" [Byron]; "the
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