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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb inter has 1 sense
- inter(v = verb.social) bury, entomb, inhume, 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 interment1
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot inter Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
inter, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inter, v.tr. (interred, interring) deposit (a corpse etc.) in the earth, a tomb, etc.; bury.
Etymology
ME f. OF enterrer f. Rmc (as IN-(2), L terra earth)
THESAURUS
inter
bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hearse, inearth, inhume, inurn, lay away, lay to rest, plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb, uniteROGET 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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