Rebury
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Rebury is a verb meaning (transitive) To bury again.
Meaning
(transitive) To bury again.
Example Sentences
Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.
As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac[h] the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.
Word Forms
- reburies
- reburying
- reburied
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reburial, reexhume, reshroud, reshovel, underbury, rereject.
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