as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery
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Recent Examples of inter
Those interred came from a nearby reform facility.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
For instance, the young woman interred in burial 211 described above is one of several women and children buried with stone axes at the site, upending the notion that axes only belonged to Stone Age men.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
For instance, the young woman interred in burial 211 described above is one of several women and children buried with stone axes at the site, upending the notion that axes only belonged to Stone Age men.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inter
bury
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Alongside Moore, coach Bill Petersen had the sod buried to commemorate the win, and a tradition was born.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Archaeologists concluded the structure was actually a false tomb, or a cenotaph, a type of burial monument erected to honor a deceased person buried elsewhere.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Inter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inter. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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