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reburying

reburying is the present participle and gerund 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 reburying

What is reburying the present participle and gerund of?
Reburying is the present participle and gerund of rebury.

Words near reburying in the dictionary

  1. rebursing
  2. reburst
  3. rebursting
  4. rebursts
  5. rebury
  6. reburying
  7. rebus
  8. rebus principle
  9. rebus sic stantibus
  10. rebused
  11. rebuses

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