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Getting buried amongst Wagner’s operas?
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interring
Word definitions for interring in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inter \In*ter"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Interring .] [OE. enteren, OF. enterer, enterrer, LL. interrare; L. pref. in- in + terra the earth. See Terrace .] To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 , inhume , lay to rest ] [also: interring , interred ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of inter English) vb. (present participle of inter English)
Usage examples of interring.
Or a whole community might govern itself according to plant laws and rites, sacrificing, dismembering, and interring its best and most vital members to increase the general good.
Clarke saw them, and assisted in interring heaps of human bodies, which, having been thrown up by the sea where there were no jackals to devour them, presented a sight loathsome to humanity.
The custom had been born generations ago, arising from the more ancient practice of interring corpses in hollowed-out tree trunks.
Valdemar,” demanded that a “death watch” be maintained on Fearing and, on the morning of the funeral, hinted darkly that they were interring a man who was somehow still alive.
She almost laughed when one Fisher proclaimed the family vault proof against grave robbers, because Gena believed if Men refrained from interring jewelry and other such things with the dead, no thief would bother even to try to break in.