Synonyms of interred

interred

verb

past tense of inter

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• buried
• entombed
• laid
• hid
• put away
• tombed
• hearsed
• inhumed
• enshrined
• immured
• reinterred
• concealed
• reburied
• inurned
• ensconced
• obscured
• shielded
• shaded
• shrouded
• covered
• cloaked
• enshrouded
• curtained
• coffined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unearthed
• disinterred
• cremated
• exhumed
• burned
• discovered
• revealed
• exposed
• disclosed
• exhibited
• displayed
• showed
• bared
• uncoffined

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of interred

Several individuals had been interred within burial cists made of volcanic tuff. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026

On June 26 of this year, Bloch, a Jew who identified as such only when dealing with anti-Semites, was interred in the Pantheon, the final resting place of so many of France’s great literary and cultural figures. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

After his lie in state honor at the Idaho Capitol and a public funeral in May, Kempthorne was interred at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise. — Kevin Fixler june 26, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2026

The hand positions of those interred also differed. — Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 24 June 2026

Once a donated cadaver can no longer be used by UCSD, the remains are cremated and scattered or interred in a manner consistent with state law, the university says. — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2026

The Gestapo arrested Mahrer in 1942 and interred him at the notoriously cruel Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026

Dad’s passing last December at age 96 meant this month’s holiday was a first with Dad being with his parents and siblings and other family interred at our small-town Catholic cemetery. — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026