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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And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The result was a single, wholly outmatched excavator coming to the mountain of masonry that had been the Al-Zaharnah home, where Mutaz and at least six others were still interred.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
His body is interred at the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum in his honour.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Where his pectoral muscles should be, he has a breast weighed down with the words of human beings: by words interred, free-as-a-bird absurd, unheard!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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