as in to inter
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
the cemetery hearses an average of eight bodies a week
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Recent Examples of hearse
There was Ozzy’s hearse up front and the family in about five black SUVs following us.
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Steve Knopper, Billboard, 30 July 2025
Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
—John Von Sothen, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
But outside, under the church portico, two long hearses — one black, one white — waited.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2025
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Steve Knopper, Billboard, 30 July 2025
Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
—John Von Sothen, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
But outside, under the church portico, two long hearses — one black, one white — waited.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hearse
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The approximately 230 victims interred in the grave were men, women and children — some in the prime of their lives, says Jiang.—
Durrie Bouscaren,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2026
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Afterward, Brennan will be interred at Blue Springs Cemetery, near his best friend Patrick Thomas McCarthy, who died in 2011, and close family friend Valerie Potter.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
28 Feb. 2026
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Like your mother’s complacency, which was probably buried in your gene code somewhere.—
Addie Citchens,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Said to be the first person buried on the hill that became Oakwood Cemetery, the city's oldest, he was killed while traveling between Bastrop and Austin.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.—
Peter Hessler,
The New Yorker,
26 June 2023
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“Hearse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearse. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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