rebury

present singular third person reburies · participle present reburying · participle past reburied · past reburied

1. transitiveTo bury again.

   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.

   2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017, ASIA PACIFIC

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   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.

   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