as in interment
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expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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Recent Examples of funeral
Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
Listen to this article As the family of late R&B artist Angie Stone wrapped details for her funeral, a fake GoFundMe campaign seeking donations was quickly shut down.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
On Thursday, dozens of people took part in funeral prayers outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah for people killed in Israeli strikes the day before.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Polish archaeologists who were excavating a large pyramid in San Isidro, El Salvador, found a collection of items that resembled a funeral deposit but were missing human remains, according to a March 5 Facebook post from Antiquity.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
Listen to this article As the family of late R&B artist Angie Stone wrapped details for her funeral, a fake GoFundMe campaign seeking donations was quickly shut down.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
The funeral procession that climaxes Emilia Pérez is the damnedest, craziest thing since Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic minions draped kente cloth stoles over their shoulders and kneeled to canonize George Floyd at the Capitol.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
On Thursday, dozens of people took part in funeral prayers outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah for people killed in Israeli strikes the day before.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Noun
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Public observances will be scheduled in both Atlanta and Washington, D.C., followed by a private interment in Plains, Georgia.—
Tracy Wright,
Fox News,
30 Dec. 2024
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Before the interment, the U.S. Navy will conduct a missing man formation flyover in honor of his naval service and time as commander in chief.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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Brown’s sound design mixes Sousa-like military fanfares with mournful underscoring for Lavinia’s tragedy, neither of which has much to do with Kidwell’s preshow music.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Chaos quickly unfolds when the bickering, different-strokes twins find the calamitous heirloom—although Perkins keeps the first act mostly mournful, as the boys struggle with the onslaught of death around them.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Israelis lined highways as the bodies of a mother and her two young sons, killed in captivity in Gaza, were taken for burial on Wednesday.—
WAFAA SHURAFA,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Yes—in fact, some historians believe Stonehenge is foremost a burial site.—
Hannah Edgar,
ARTnews.com,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The record for the shortest Oscar-winning performance goes to Beatrice Straight, who played the heartbroken wife of a philandering TV station president in Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film Network.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Skokie restaurateurs were left heartbroken on Valentine’s Day when a broken water main disaster in northeastern Skokie left the village without drinkable tap water from Feb. 14 through 16.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The bitter exchange was unlike any other in the Oval Office in modern times. 13:43 With Ukraine's future in the balance, a high-stakes meeting on Friday between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devolved into a shouting match.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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Their bond defies centuries of tradition, where vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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