rebury

English

From re- +‎ bury.

rebury (third-person singular simple present reburies, present participle reburying, simple past and past participle reburied)

(transitive) To bury again.
- 2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-28, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[2]:
  Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.
- 2013, Catherine Bates, “Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water”, in Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup, editors, Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border (Cultural Studies), Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
  As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac[h] the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.