葬ほうむる
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)
1. to bury; to inter; to entomb
People aren't buried right after they die.
2. to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
In the end, the truth about the incident was hushed up for good.
Kanji used
funeral
Pitch accent
ほ
うむ
る
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Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to cover up; to hush up; to shroud in darkness; to have a secret abortion
to cover up; to hush up; to shroud in darkness; to have a secret abortion
Examples (6 in total)
People aren't buried right after they die.
This is the church where Blake is buried.
The past should perhaps be quietly buried.
The company tried to cover up that fact.
In the end, the truth about the incident was hushed up for good.
When I came home after burying my mother, the house felt awfully big.