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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Navy personnel worked until April 1942 to recover remains of the crew, which were interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries in Hawaii.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Later, the victims’ ashes were interred in a modest columbarium that the priest had built in a Catholic cemetery.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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Trailing 102-91, Houston unleashed a 23-7 stampede, burying the Heat under a barrage of three-pointers.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
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The senior buried a header into the net for the only score of the game.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 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 29 Mar. 2026.
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