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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To place in or as if in a tomb or grave.
  • transitive verb To serve as a tomb for.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; bury; inter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive to deposit in a tomb

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb place in a grave or tomb

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