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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At first, the remains of U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces personnel were interred in the Schofield Barracks Cemetery until the American Graves Registration Service disinterred the remains in August 1947.
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Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Tillich’s ashes were interred here in 1966, a year after New Harmony was designated a National Historic Landmark.
—Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
What To Know After King Henry VIII ordered for More to be executed, his head was placed on London Bridge before being retrieved by his daughter, Margaret Roper, and eventually interred in the Roper family vault at St. Dunstan's Church.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
The Chases found that he had been interred at the base of a royal family shrine in about A.D. 350.
—Kerry Breen
july 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
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Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Tillich’s ashes were interred here in 1966, a year after New Harmony was designated a National Historic Landmark.
—Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
What To Know After King Henry VIII ordered for More to be executed, his head was placed on London Bridge before being retrieved by his daughter, Margaret Roper, and eventually interred in the Roper family vault at St. Dunstan's Church.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
The Chases found that he had been interred at the base of a royal family shrine in about A.D. 350.
—Kerry Breen
july 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inter
bury
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As the late historian Barry Rubin documented in his biography of Arafat, the Palestinian leader used a variety of methods, both buying off and burying his opponents.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Early in the novel, Harold points out that authors are constantly looking for ways to bury their true beliefs in their text, rather than state them outright.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Inter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inter. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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