inter
verb (used with object)
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
had interred
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past perfectof inter.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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All at once it occurred to Leonard that Judith's companion was the unfortunate stranger whose child he had interred, and who had been so strangely affected at the sight of Nizza Macascree.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison
We buried poor Traverse, and his chain-bearers, near the spring, using one of the same natural hollows in the earth as that in which we had interred the hunter.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
But Osmund Heleigh she had interred at Ambresbury, commanding it to be written on his tomb that he died in the Queen's cause.
From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green
It was just that old Puritanism, Spartanism of her childhood, which was continually reaching up its bony hand from the grave where she had interred it.
From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
It was indeed he who accompanied the captain of the Jane when he had interred that bottle, containing the letter which I had refused to believe authentic, at the Kerguelens.
From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel
