interment
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- reinterment noun
Etymology
Origin of interment
1300–50; inter + -ment; replacing Middle English enter ( e ) ment < Middle French enterrement
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Example Sentences
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Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025
“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
If no one is found after three years, the county will handle the woman’s interment.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024
Cora reached for her hair before realizing that after her interment there was no improving her appearance.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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