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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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 Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
Those who had interred him were suspected, not of having murdered, but of having harboured him.
From History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second by Henry Morley
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 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who had interred Brimstone Billy, working hastily at an unlawful hour and in fear of molestation by the people, had hardly dug a grave.
From The Miraculous Revenge Little Blue Book #215 by E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius
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 Frances Cashel Hoey
