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Interred

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 body.
--Shak.

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interred

  1. 1 Having been interred. 2 (context of a buried corpse English) located. alt. 1 Having been interred. 2 (context of a buried corpse English) located. v

  2. (en-past of: inter)

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interred

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interred

adj. placed in a grave; "the hastily buried corpses" [syn: buried, inhumed] [ant: unburied]

inter

  1. 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]

  2. [also: interring, interred]

Usage examples of "interred".

To the right were the three floors occupied by those interred in life, where the gasp of the undertow at the cliffs and the prayers and canticles of the canonical hours almost never penetrated.

And so upon the morn she was interred richly, and Sir Launcelot offered her mass-penny.

And at the great instance of the knights of the Table Round, the king suffered him to be interred, and the mention made upon him, who slew him, and for what cause he was slain.

Ye may not see him, said the king, for I caused him to be interred, and Sir Gaheris both.

Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there interred that ye pray so fast for?

He was piously interred by the hands of his nearest kinsman, on the same spot on which he expired: ^151 Medina has been sanctified by the death and burial of Mahomet.

The last memory he had of Sierva María was her crossing the gallery in the garden, dragging her painful foot, and disappearing into the pavilion of those interred in life.

She never accepted that being imprisoned for life was the same as being a cloistered nun, and in this she was so consistent that she had offered to serve the rest of her sentence as a maid in the pavilion of those interred in life.

Sierva María was forced to move to a locked cell in the pavilion of those interred in life.

He climbed to the second floor, walked down a solitary corridor with low ceilings that connected the two sections of the convent, and entered the silent, rarefied world of those interred in life.

Which, Killashandra realized with a flicker of ironic amusement, was one to be as deeply and quickly interred and forgotten as possible.

The healer had been appalled at the state she was in and had agreed that she should be interred between.

We retrieved the remains of Sallah Telgar, which have since been suitably interred at Telgar Hold.

That is the fate of those interred in Queen's Graveto be buried alive.

Beyond the stones, the wyvern rose up from the cliff face where it had been interred for centuries, a skeleton no longer but fully fleshed.