burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture
(noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sepulture (countable and uncountable, plural sepultures)
(uncountable) The act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre.
(archaic) Alternative form of sepulchre.
• (act of sepulchring): interment
sepulture (third-person singular simple present sepultures, present participle sepulturing, simple past and past participle sepultured)
(transitive) To inter in a sepulture.
Source: Wiktionary
Sep"ul*ture, n. Etym: [F. sépulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire, sepultum, to bury.]
1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.
2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 February 2025
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism; “an acrimonious dispute”; “bitter about the divorce”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
