embalmment

noun

Definition of embalmmentnext
as in funeral

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  1. funeral
  2. interment
  3. burial
Noun
  • The figure was chosen because an American flag is folded thirteen times into a triangle shape during military funerals and other ceremonies to represent the thirteen colonies and stripes on the flag.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Since 2020, a community college in North Carolina has received 43 unclaimed bodies from local welfare agencies and medical examiners to teach embalming to funeral services students.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of funeral
Noun
  • The Connecticut National Guard has issued a noise advisory for Friday, December 20, for Middletown, due to the private interment ceremony of former Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
  • From the day of death until the interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president or the governor of a state.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of interment
Noun
  • Cut to everyone on the ranch preparing for John’s burial — and the metaphorical funeral of the Yellowstone itself.
    William Earl, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Those efforts still failed to find any crash or burial sites associated with the crew of Little Joe.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of burial
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