burying (verb)

  • 41Song of the hoe — Stone hoes from America. The first basalt hoes in the Near East would have looked similar to these …

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  • 42Moonshine by country — Contents 1 Moonshine by country 1.1 Albania 1.2 Armenia 1.3 …

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  • 43Ancrene Wisse — (Ancrene Riwle) (ca. 1190–1220)    Ancrene Wisse, also known as Rule for a Recluse and Guide for Anchoresses, is a 13th century text, produced ca. 1190–1220 C.E. It is written in vernacular prose in the West Midlands dialect that Tolkien… …

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  • 44flex — flex1 verb 1》 bend (a limb or joint). 2》 contract or tense (a muscle). 3》 warp or bend and then revert to shape. 4》 [as adjective flexed] Archaeology relating to or denoting the practice of burying a corpse with the legs drawn up under the chin.… …

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  • 45burton — noun gone for a burton BrE spoken lost, broken, or dead: This radio s gone for a burton. bury / beri/ verb (T) 1 PUT SB IN GRAVE to put someone who has died in a grave: bury sb in/at etc: Gretta wanted to be buried at St Peter s. 2 have buried sb …

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  • 46bury */*/ — UK [ˈberɪ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms bury : present tense I/you/we/they bury he/she/it buries present participle burying past tense buried past participle buried 1) [often passive] to put someone s dead body in the ground during a funeral …

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  • 47tumble down — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms tumble down : present tense I/you/we/they tumble down he/she/it tumbles down present participle tumbling down past tense tumbled down past participle tumbled down 1) same as tumble I, 2) The scaffolding… …

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  • 48Bunbury — /bunˈbə ri/ noun The name of an invented person used as an excuse for sudden departures intransitive verb (Bun burying; Bun buried) to make such an excuse or departure ORIGIN: From the invented character in Wilde s The Importance of Being Earnest …

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  • 49cre|mate — «KREE mayt», transitive verb, mat|ed, mat|ing. 1. to burn (a dead body) to ashes instead of burying it. 2. to burn. ╂[< Latin cremāre (with English ate1)] …

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  • 50CAIN — (Heb. קַיִן, Qayin, smith ), the firstborn son of adam and eve , brother of abel and seth (Gen. 4:1, 25). In the Bible Cain and Abel both brought offerings to God from the fruits of their labors, but God did not pay heed to Cain s gift. Ignoring… …

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