interred

American  

[in-turd] / ɪnˈtɜrd /

adjective

1. (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.

2. 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.

3. 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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noun

1. Usually the interred a person or persons buried in a grave or tomb.

   Most of the interred did not have individual grave markers.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of inter.

Other Word Forms

• uninterred adjective

Etymology

Origin of interred

inter ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

The government interred Japanese, German, and other diplomats from enemy countries at the Greenbrier, of all places—both to keep the diplomats from leaving the country and to make sure that they were treated well.

From Literature

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

But then Scott Michaels, the founder of Dearly Departed Tours, discovered that her cremated remains were interred in a rose garden under her married name, Elsa Lanchester Laughton.

From BBC

From Scotland to China, and from Iceland to West Africa, they have been interred under heavy stones, staked or nailed into graves.

From The Wall Street Journal

The jewels "cannot be treated as specimens" but as the "sacred body and originally interred offerings to the sacred body" of the Buddha, the post said.

From BBC

Related Words

• covered
• hidden