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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inurn . - adjective Of cremated ashes: placed in an
urn ;buried ,entombed .
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Examples
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A Vietnam veteran, he was eligible to be inurned in the Columbarium because he served in a war.
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The host whose dust inurned has slumbered treads not on week – days the cothurnus.
Peer Gynt 2008
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The host whose dust inurned has slumbered treads not on week – days the cothurnus.
Peer Gynt 2008
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If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?
Quotations 1919
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Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?
Quotations 1919
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Had he lived in another age, among other people, his body would have been inurned in the Valhalla of the Brave.
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Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?
Quotations 1919
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He commanded that the hearts of Roland, Olivier, and Turpin be taken from their bodies, wrapped, and inurned, and the bodies borne home in chariots.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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