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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Four-month-old Maytie Raker was buried in 1906 without a grave marker.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
More than 600 people have been killed, homes buried to the ground and entire villages washed away in the aftermath.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

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By comparison, according to the study, the burial robes of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Habsburg, interred around the same time in Kraków in southern Poland, contain not a single pure gold thread.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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