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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb inhume has 1 sense
- inhume(v = verb.social) bury, entomb, inter, lay to rest - place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" is one way to lay, put down, repose
Derived form noun inhumation1
Sample sentences:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
inhume, v. t. [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.].
- To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. [1913 Webster]"Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
Inhume the natives in their native plain." [1913 Webster] - To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inhume, v.tr. literary bury.
Derivative
inhumation n.
Etymology
L inhumare (as IN-(2), humus ground)
THESAURUS
inhume
bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hearse, inearth, inter, inurn, lay away, lay to rest, plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tombROGET THESAURUS
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Interment
VB inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel, inurn, exhume, disinter, unearth.
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