inhume
verb (used with object)
to bury; inter.
inhumation
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a word derived from
inhume.
Example Sentences
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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
The commonest method was some form of inhumation in pits, graves, or holes in the ground, in stone graves or cysts, in mounds, beneath or in houses, or in caves.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
In Britain, the burials were at times by inhumation only, and occasionally a great number of bodies were interred in the same barrow: at others, cremation had preceded burial.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
The ancients held hasty inhumation in great dread, and grounded their apprehension on various current traditions.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Save for a few first-century remains in one corner, the graveyard seems to be an inhumation cemetery, used during the second half of the second century—rather an early date for such a cemetery.
From Roman Britain in 1914 by F. (Francis) Haverfield
