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interred
[ in-turd ]
adjective
- (of a dead body) placed in a grave or tomb; buried:
These places are sacred because they contain the interred remains of our loved ones.
- forgotten or removed from consideration, as if buried:
One of the priority tasks for these activists is to recover the interred heritage of Latin America's revolutionary movements.
- placed in the earth or underground:
Anodes are installed on the interred sections of pipeline to reduce the corrosion caused by electrochemical action.
noun
- Usually the interred. a person or persons buried in a grave or tomb:
Most of the interred did not have individual grave markers.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of inter ( def ).
Other Word Forms
- ܲ··ٱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of interred1
Example Sentences
The pope’s body must be interred between the fourth and sixth day after death.
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Harris received full military honors and was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
The four youngest Nguyen family members didn’t anticipate two of them getting interred at a camp set up for Vietnamese Americans in the wake of violent attacks.
But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.
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