Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or ritual of interring or burying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of interring or depositing in the earth; burial; sepulture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
burying adead body ;burial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
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Examples
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Burial is commonly called interment It is frequently has a considerable price tag and unquestionably the most pricey part of a funeral
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Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident.
Williams, James E. 1966
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Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident.
Preston, James A. 1966
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Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident.
Madison, William L. 1966
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Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident.
Tapp, Marshall L. 1966
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Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident.
McKenney, Kenneth D. 1966
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Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident.
Thompson, George W. 1966
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But the most recent statement is that his interment was a sham, and was part of a well-devised plan for facilitating his escape from France to Germany during the prevalence of rumoured attempts to restore the Stuarts, and that, after marrying the Countess of Waldsteine-Waters, he lived, bearing her name, to the age of eighty-six.
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A study of this collection leads to the belief that all the specimens are from one interment, that is, the grave of a single individual.
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A rough box was their coffin, and their interment was a dog's burial.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl aka Brent Linda 1861
bilby commented on the word interment
Always looks to me as if there's missing between inter- (prefix) and -ment (suffix). Yes, of course inTER in this case is the root and not a prefix. Still ...
October 26, 2009