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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Bertz was interred at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, and flags were flown at half-staff at state buildings Monday.
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Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
Disney’s body was cremated, with his ashes interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Furthermore, the individual had been interred deeper in the earth than the surrounding burials.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Dec. 2025
Her ashes are to be interred on May 21, 2026, what would have been her 102nd birthday.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
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Medieval Europeans moved to England consistently A press release by the University of Cambridge continued that researchers studied more than 700 chemical signatures from the teeth of people buried in England between AD 400 and 1100.—
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He will be cremated, with his ashes buried next to his parents in Joliet, Osborne said.—
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“Inter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inter. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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