Bury

Words related to disposing of a dead body.

• What words refer to burying a dead body?
  bury burial inter interment lay to rest entomb
• What steps are involved in preparing a body for burial?
  burial arrangements wash (the body) wrap anoint
• What words refer to a person who prepares a body for burial?
  embalmer undertaker mortician gravedigger funeral director
• Where are bodies prepared for burial?
  morgue mortuary crematorium
• What is used to protect a body?
  grave clothes shroud coffin casket sarcophagus urn
• What is used to carry a body?
  pall bier hearse
• What words refer to burning a body?
  cremate cremation pyre ashes
• What words refer to leaving a body outside?
  expose (a body) funeral platform left to rot
• What words refer to preserving a dead body?
  embalm mummify mummy