Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put in an urn.
- transitive verb To bury or entomb; inter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put into an urn, especially a funeral urn; hence, to bury; inter; intomb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
place in anurn .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From in- + urn.
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Examples
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To bury thy invaders, or inurn thy children brave.
War songs of the South ed. William G. Shepperson. 1862
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