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

The spores inside him are alive and well and ready to spread should his unpreserved body be interred in the soil. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Following the service, the King will be interred in the Royal Mausoleum at Akershus Fortress, alongside the late King Haakon VII, Queen Maud, King Olav V & Crown Princess Märtha. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

According to People, Dean was interred in a mausoleum at the cemetery. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026

By comparison, according to the study, the burial robes of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Habsburg, interred around the same time in Kraków in southern Poland, contain not a single pure gold thread. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years. — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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