interment

Examples

• All

• Scott's remains would be returned to Albany, New York, for interment in the family burial plot.

  Fiction book (1995)

• After the interment at the cemetery, Ian went home and recorded the video.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Perhaps you will show me my sister's place of interment now.

  The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

• Following his interment, they wished he were still with them.

  Academic text (2015)

• We'll have an interment of the ashes in the plot.

  Fiction book (1990)

• For over 50 years, West Valley families have trusted Spruce Hill... with the interment and care of their loved ones.

  Neighbors (1981)

• I knew that a place was left in their burial plot for the interment of their unmarried daughter.

  Fiction book (1991)

• We'll be better able to gauge reactions after Sallah Telgar's interment tomorrow.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The interment of the deceased took place in a beautiful cemetery on a sunny day.

• She made arrangements for the interment to ensure that his final wishes were honored.

Synonyms

B

burial

vsinterment

172 3.5

The act of placing a dead body in a grave, often with a ceremony

is the same idea but can also apply to tomb placement

E

entombment

vsinterment

• Formal

1 8.9

The act of placing a dead body in a tomb or grave during a funeral

is broader and covers graves as well as tombs

I

inhumation

vsinterment

• Specialized

9.9

Putting a dead person in a grave

is the general ceremony of placing a body in a grave or tomb

S

sepulture

vsinterment

• Archaic

9.9

To put a dead person into a grave or tomb

is similar but does not always stress ritual observance

Antonyms

E

exhumation

• Specialized

11 9.4

To dig up a buried body to examine it

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology