REBURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rebury mean? 

• REBURY (verb)
  The verb REBURY has 1 sense:

1. bury again

  Familiarity information: REBURY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REBURY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rebury    ... he / she / it reburies   
Past simple: reburied   
Past participle: reburied   
-ing form: reburying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bury again

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

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

Hypernyms (to "rebury" is one way to...):

lay; put down; repose (put in a horizontal position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reburial (the act of burying again)