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re-bury

re-bury is the alternative form of rebury.

Meaning of rebury

Verb

rebury (third-person singular simple present reburies, present participle reburying, simple past and past participle reburied)

  1. (transitive) To bury again.
    • Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017, ASIA PACIFIC

Forms of re-bury

third-person singular presentre-buries
present participlere-burying
past participlere-buried
pastre-buried

Questions about re-bury

What is re-bury the alternative form of?
Re-bury is the alternative form of rebury.

Words near re-bury in the dictionary

  1. re-brands
  2. re-build
  3. re-building
  4. re-builds
  5. re-built
  6. re-bury
  7. re-call
  8. re-called
  9. re-calling
  10. re-calls
  11. re-capitulation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-bury (page history and authors); rebury (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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