interred
Americanadjective
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(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.
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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.
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placed in the earth or underground.
Anodes are installed on the interred sections of pipeline to reduce the corrosion caused by electrochemical action.
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In 1989, during the French revolutionary bicentennial celebrations, Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon, but Brissot, who advocated the export of the revolution to other nations by force, remains a less-celebrated figure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
The next morning, we detour north to the Ossuaire de Douaumont, where the remains of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun are interred inside a giant stone memorial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
But then Scott Michaels, the founder of Dearly Departed Tours, discovered that her cremated remains were interred in a rose garden under her married name, Elsa Lanchester Laughton.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Theevil that mendoo lives after them, Thegoodisoft interred with their bones;...”
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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