What's the difference between bury and rebury?

Bury


Definition:

  • (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
  • (n.) A manor house; a castle.
  • (v. t.) To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
  • (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
  • (v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (2) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (3) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
  • (4) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) BB July 8, 2014 Barry Bateman (@barrybateman) #OscarTrial Barry Roux has his head buried in a law journal.
  • (7) Quenching data indicated that five out of 22 tryptophans in CBH are surface-localized and are available for quenching with both KI and acrylamide, and three other tryptophans are buried and are available only to acrylamide.
  • (8) Suture knots are buried in the sclera to minimize the risk of late-onset endophthalmitis.
  • (9) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (10) Between 1972 and 1985, 17 people were abducted, sometimes tortured, then killed and buried.
  • (11) The results indicate the presence of carbohydrate epitopes buried within collagenous polypeptides that are exposed by harsh denaturing conditions.
  • (12) "The middle class was buried by the policies that Romney and Ryan have supported," he told the crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, according to the Washington Post .
  • (13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (14) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
  • (15) Regions 1-51, 250-310, 567-612, 650-670, and 1307-1382 are particularly buried whereas the 3'-terminal domain and the 5'-proximal region (nucleotides 53-218) are exposed.
  • (16) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
  • (17) We took advantage of this conserved structural conformation to help predict which variant subregions of VSG molecules may contain exposed or buried variant specific B cell epitopes.
  • (18) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
  • (19) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (20) The 125,000 dalton complex seems to be buried inside the lipid layer.

Rebury


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bury again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bodies underwent DNA tests on Thursday and were reburied in Qunu, which Mandela has chosen as his own resting place.
  • (2) The Plantagenet Alliance, a company formed by relatives of Richard's family, argues that he should be reburied in his ancestral home, York.
  • (3) The cathedral can go ahead with planning the monument and the ceremony now that a legal challenge against Richard's being reburied in Leicester has failed .
  • (4) Sixteen family members led by Makaziwe won a court case against Mandla over his 2011 decision to secretly exhume and rebury Mandela's three late children in the village of Mvezo, where Mandla is chief and has built a visitor centre.
  • (5) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
  • (6) School authorities have temporarily refilled the graves and the minister said he would be asking the cabinet to agree on a programme of reburials on a wider scale across Matabeleland and the Midlands.
  • (7) Leicester cathedral had planned to rebury him yards from the car park, where the council is building a museum to tell the whole story, next spring.
  • (8) To do anything else would be a pastiche of a medieval tomb and would ignore the fact he is being reburied in the 21st century.
  • (9) If they belong to someone whose partial remains have already been found, mothers and widows are faced with the choice of leaving the new bones in communal graves, or digging up their dead son or husband so that he can be reburied in more complete form.
  • (10) The rest of the family want the remains to be reburied in Qunu, where Mandela himself wants to be laid to rest.
  • (11) The judges rejected the claim of distant relatives from the Plantagenet Alliance that justice secretary Chris Grayling was under a legal duty to set up a wide-ranging consultation over the reburial site.
  • (12) Richard III reburial: Leicester welcomes king's remains – in pictures Read more The first stop is Fenn Lane, at the working farm where scatters of artillery shot and bits of broken horse harness and weaponry finally identified the marshy ground where the last Plantagenet king lost his horse, his helmet and then his life in the last hour of the battle of Bosworth, in August 1485.
  • (13) But politics and soldiery are not the only reasons for dignified reburials.
  • (14) He also caused further upset when he ordered three of Nelson Mandela's children to be exhumed from Qunu and reburied 24 miles away in the hamlet where he is a chief, Mvezo.
  • (15) In fact the three bodies were not only exhumed by order of Charles II within months of his restoration; they were hung, mutilated, and reburied at Tyburn like common criminals.
  • (16) But it would be surprising, when they are identified, if the great writer was not to be reburied in a place of honour so that admirers of the indomitable Knight of the Sad Countenance could pay their respects.
  • (17) But at some point early in May, the police had changed their minds and ordered the bodies to be exhumed, given an autopsy and reburied in individual graves.
  • (18) Reburial of bones uncovered by archeological exploration has become a major focus for some groups.
  • (19) But Ndlovu warned that it may be impossible to get Zanu-PF to permit a programme of mass exhumations and reburials.
  • (20) The cathedral authorities say that if the identity is confirmed, they will work with the royal household, and the Richard III Society , to ensure "the remains are treated with dignity and respect and are reburied with the appropriate rites and ceremonies of the church".

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