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backfilling

n. The process by which something is backfilled. vb. (present participle of backfill English)

Usage examples of "backfilling".

Each cracking thud of pick or shovel had a purging effect on them, and in the end, backfilling the graves over the bare bodies, together they came out of their pain and into a new, more barren reality.