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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for..
Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation.
A gentleman who knew him, speaking of him to an American traveller a few years since, said — "Sir he funeralized every congregation he took charge of."
"Old Uncle Sambo make a powerful prayer when they funeralized the body."
With Weaver gone this way he could not even be funeralized like a regular somebody. Big Young had been funeralized the properest that Eenie had ever seen, with a fine motor hearse of light purple color, and coffin-bearers with pure.
[...] the preacher-man was weepy- eyed when he funeralized the corpse; [...]
"Two of them were funeralized down there in Robbins, Georgia. I reckon they got them all." "Funeralized?" "That's right," he said in his soft voice. "They never should have fooled around with that crowd."
Use funeralize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Funeralize means To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for..
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Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation.
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