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Person > Life > Die > Bury

Preferred term

2.6.6.5Bury  

Definition

  • Use this domain for words related to disposing of a dead body. Different cultures have practices other than burying a body in the ground. Include words for all practices used by the culture.

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  • What words refer to burying a dead body? bury, burial, inter, interment, lay to rest, entomb. What steps are involved in preparing a body for burial? burial arrangements, wash (the body), wrap, anoint. What words refer to a person who prepares a body for burial? embalmer, undertaker, mortician, gravedigger, funeral director. Where are bodies prepared for burial? morgue, mortuary, crematorium. What is used to protect a body? grave clothes, shroud, coffin, casket, sarcophagus, urn. What is used to carry a body? pall, bier, hearse. What words refer to burning a body? cremate, cremation, pyre, ashes. What words refer to leaving a body outside? expose (a body), funeral platform, left to rot. What words refer to preserving a dead body? embalm, mummify, mummy.

Notation

  • 2.6.6.5

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https://w3id.org/MoRe-SFB1475/CT/concepts/3523957543

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