INHUMED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

inhumed

verb

past tense of inhume

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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Massive amounts of rocks and soil roared down a slope and buried more than 10 residential buildings early Friday in Pengshui County on the outskirts of Chongqing.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
After careful physical analysis of six ancient princesses buried beneath the pyramids at Dahshur, researchers now have an answer.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 July 2026

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On June 26 of this year, Bloch, a Jew who identified as such only when dealing with anti-Semites, was interred in the Pantheon, the final resting place of so many of France’s great literary and cultural figures.

— Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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