as in buried
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
there were so many dead that it was impossible to inhume them all promptly
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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 -
Kymora Johnson buried an icy 3 and broke a late tie.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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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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“Inhumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumed. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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