as in buried
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 interred
The Odd Fellows Cemetery, where Sammy is interred, is the last such cemetery in Sacramento.
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Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
She was later interred at Fairview Cemetery.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Navy personnel collected the remains of the fallen sailors from December 1941 to April 1942, which were interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries, the statement said.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
However, the Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s Office Human Identification Program learned the unidentified remains were likely interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City during a subsequent investigation.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
Those interred came from a nearby reform facility.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
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.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
She was later interred at Fairview Cemetery.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Navy personnel collected the remains of the fallen sailors from December 1941 to April 1942, which were interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries, the statement said.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
However, the Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s Office Human Identification Program learned the unidentified remains were likely interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City during a subsequent investigation.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
Those interred came from a nearby reform facility.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
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.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interred
buried
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As the lore goes, King’s daughter’s cat was struck by a truck and buried on a hill behind the house, inspiring the plot for his 1983 novel Pet Sematary.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
23 Oct. 2025
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Then, a flash flood buried the bodies in sediment.—
Amanda Schupak,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Interred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interred. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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