Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means burial, so the verb version would be to bury or to inter.

You're trying to bury a whole moo (ほうむ) cow outside your home. You can't just bury parts of it — that would be super disrespectful. To give this thing a proper burial, you have to bury the whole moo cow.