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Inhume

Inhume \In*hume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhumed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhuming.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.]

  1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

    Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain.
    --Pope.

  2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhume

c.1600 (implied in inhumed), from Latin inhumare "to bury," literally "to put into the ground," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + humus "earth, soil" (see humus).

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inhume

vb. (context transitive English) To bury in a grave.

WordNet
inhume

v. place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inter, lay to rest]

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Inhume (band)

Inhume is a Dutch death metal/ grindcore band, formed in 1994.

Usage examples of "inhume".

After hitting Cheesewright he explained carefully that Terminate with Extreme Prejudice did not simply require that the victim was inhumed, preferably in an extremely thorough way, but that his associates and employees were also intimately involved, along with the business premises, the building, and a large part of the surrounding neighbourhood, so that everyone involved would know that the man had been unwise enough to make the kind of enemies who could get very angry and indiscriminate.