Definition

Verb: * To bury (a corpse or remains) again, typically after having been exhumed or moved from a previous burial site.

Usage

The verb "rebury" describes the specific action of conducting a second or subsequent burial. It is a transitive verb, requiring a direct object (what is being buried again). The past tense and past participle form is "reburied."

Examples

• After the forensic examination, the archaeologists will rebury the ancient bones with a new ceremony.
• The family decided to rebury their grandmother in the family plot next to her husband.
• The remains were exhumed for identification and then reburied in a marked grave.

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in archaeological, forensic, and historical contexts where remains are disturbed for study and then returned to the ground.
• It can also apply in legal or familial contexts when a body is relocated to a different cemetery or plot.

Variants and Related Words

• Reburial (noun): The act or ceremony of reburying.
  • The reburial of the soldiers was attended by hundreds.

Synonyms

• Reinter
• Resepulcher (archaic)

Antonyms

• Exhume
• Disinter
• Unearth

Verb

1. bury again
   • After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of poison, it was reburied in the same spot