as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery
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Recent Examples of inter
The Etruscans often interred their deceased in necropolises, which is where the Sapienza University team recovered 30 teeth from 10 individuals who died during the 7th and 6th centuries.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
Betsy Ross was once interred at the cemetery before her remains were moved, Yeadon Mayor Rohan Hepkins said at the news conference, and soldiers from every war since the Revolutionary War are buried there.
—Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Crump will be cremated, and her ashes interred between her parents in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Front Royal, Virginia.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
But those burials, and others that came a few hundred years after the pyre, were interred without this labor-intensive spectacle.
—Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
Betsy Ross was once interred at the cemetery before her remains were moved, Yeadon Mayor Rohan Hepkins said at the news conference, and soldiers from every war since the Revolutionary War are buried there.
—Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Crump will be cremated, and her ashes interred between her parents in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Front Royal, Virginia.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
But those burials, and others that came a few hundred years after the pyre, were interred without this labor-intensive spectacle.
—Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inter
bury
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Only one body was identified by a family, while the others were buried on Friday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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In a report published this month in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a team from the Australian National University examined the tooth enamel of three individuals buried at the Dong Xa Iron Age burial site in Northern Vietnam.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Inter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inter. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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