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reburied

reburied is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about reburied

What is reburied the simple past and past participle of?
Reburied is the simple past and past participle of rebury.

Words near reburied in the dictionary

  1. reburgeoned
  2. reburgeoning
  3. reburgeons
  4. reburial
  5. reburials
  6. reburied
  7. reburies
  8. reburn
  9. reburned
  10. reburning
  11. reburnish

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