Interment
Nouns
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interment, burial, sepulture
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inhumation
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obsequies, exequies
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funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile
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cremation. funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity
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kneel, passing bell, tolling
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dirge etc. (lamentation) [Expression of pain.] Lamentation
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cypress
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orbit, dead march, muffled drum
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mortuary, undertaker, mute
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elegy
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funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon
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epitaph. graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth
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cerement. coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn. grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house
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cemetery, necropolis
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burial place, burial ground
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grave yard, church yard
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God's acre
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tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn
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ossuary
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bone house, charnel house, dead house
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morgue
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lich gate
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burning ghat
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crematorium, crematory
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dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. sexton, gravedigger. monument, cenotaph, shrine
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grave stone, head stone, tomb stone
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hatchment, stone
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obelisk, pyramid. exhumation, disinterment
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necropsy, autopsy
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zoothapsis.
Verbs
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inter, bury
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lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb
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inhume
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lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify
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toll the knell
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put to bed with a shovel
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inurn. exhume, disinter, unearth.
Adjectives
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burried etc. v.
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burial, funereal, funebrial
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mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary
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elegiac
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necroscopic.
Adverbs
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in memoriam
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post obit
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beneath the sod.
Phrases
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RIP
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the lone couch of his everlasting sleep" [Shelley]
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without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown" [Byron]
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in the dark union of insensate dust" [Byron]
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the deep cold shadow of the tomb" [Moore].