inurned

Definition of inurnednext
past tense of inurn

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inurned
Verb
  • Two years after her husband died, Celina Gonzalez had his remains interred in a San Diego cemetery.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The annual event, held at the Memorial to the Six Million, also marked the site's 61st observance—a space considered sacred by many, where human ashes from Dachau and other Holocaust artifacts are interred.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The new picture also captures shadowy fractures and pits that hint at large volumes of water ice still buried beneath the surface, as well as numerous impact craters surrounded by the detritus of their own explosive formation.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Sunny had been missing for hours when someone realized he was entombed under a driveway.
    Mark Price April 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2026
  • While Soviet authorities entombed that plant in concrete, Tokyo decided on a very different approach — the Fukushima Dai-ichi facility would be entirely dismantled.
    Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Collins was previously enshrined in 2010 as a member of Genesis, while Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan made the cut during their first year on the ballot.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Orbán’s control of the media is enshrined in law so Magyar’s first objective will be a legislative overhaul.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
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“Inurned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inurned. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.

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