What part of speech is burying?

Burying can be categorized as a verb and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. burying is a verb, gerund of bury (infinitive).
  • 2. burying is a noun, singular of buryings.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does burying mean?

Definitions

Verb

bury - place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
bury - place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods"
bury - embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
bury - cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
bury - dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
bury - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

Noun

burying - concealing something under the ground

Examples of burying

#   Sentence  
1. verb The dog was busy burying his bone in the garden.
2. verb She's burying her money in the sand.
3. verb She is burying her head in the sand.
4. verb Why are you burying these books?
5. verb An explosion tore through a block of flats burying a number of people under rubble.
6. verb They finished burying the dead.
7. verb And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying: I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.
8. verb The children of Heth answered, saying: My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.
9. verb Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth: And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor. That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.
10. verb And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt. But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors.
11. verb So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.
12. verb “We found out that farmers could no longer fulfill orders and were burying millions of pounds of food,” said Reilly, who attends Brown University in Rhode Island. “We thought that made no sense.”.
13. verb About 2 meters of snow fell early Monday in parts of northern Italy’s alpine region, blocking roads and burying cars and houses in some areas.
14. verb Yanni is burying the dead dog.
15. verb I tried to bury these unpleasant memories.
Sentence  
verb
The dog was busy burying his bone in the garden.
She's burying her money in the sand.
She is burying her head in the sand.
Why are you burying these books?
An explosion tore through a block of flats burying a number of people under rubble.
They finished burying the dead.
And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying: I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.
The children of Heth answered, saying: My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.
Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth: And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor. That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.
And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt. But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors.
So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.
“We found out that farmers could no longer fulfill orders and were burying millions of pounds of food,” said Reilly, who attends Brown University in Rhode Island. “We thought that made no sense.”.
About 2 meters of snow fell early Monday in parts of northern Italy’s alpine region, blocking roads and burying cars and houses in some areas.
Yanni is burying the dead dog.
I tried to bury these unpleasant memories.

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