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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For instance, the young woman interred in burial 211 described above is one of several women and children buried with stone axes at the site, upending the notion that axes only belonged to Stone Age men.
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Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Dignitaries and longtime residents gathered under gray skies at the memorial to Katrina’s victims in a New Orleans cemetery where dozens who perished in the storm but were never identified or claimed are interred.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Armstrong is interred at Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
The post-eruption settlers also buried their own, based on evidence of a newborn that was interred at the site during the reoccupation.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
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Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Dignitaries and longtime residents gathered under gray skies at the memorial to Katrina’s victims in a New Orleans cemetery where dozens who perished in the storm but were never identified or claimed are interred.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Armstrong is interred at Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
The post-eruption settlers also buried their own, based on evidence of a newborn that was interred at the site during the reoccupation.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inter
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All three of the boot styles, alongside a product manifest and brand artifacts — all buried in a container designed to withstand the elements, much like its contents.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Later, the researchers send in ultrasonic waves when the same object is hidden in a complex environment, such as a steel ball buried in sand.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Inter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inter. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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