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  • adjective Able to be, or designed to be buried.

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bury +‎ -able.

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Examples

  • So much of fault we find; but on the other side the impartial critic rejoices to remark the presence of a great unity of gusto; of those direct clap-trap appeals, which a man is dead and buriable when he fails to answer; of the footlight glamour, the ready-made, bare-faced, transpontine picturesque, a thing not one with cold reality, but how much dearer to the mind!

    Memories and Portraits 2005

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