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Exhume :: Exhume (v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.

Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

Service :: Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service..

Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A burial place.

Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory..

Entombment :: Entombment (n.) The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial..

Burial :: Burial (n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.

Catafalque :: Catafalque (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial..

Catacomb :: Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural..

Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..

Officiant :: Officiant (n.) The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office..

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.

Sepulchral :: Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription..

Burial :: Burial (n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment..

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