interred

[in-turd]

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.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of interred¹

inter ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

His body is interred at the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum in his honour.

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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.

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

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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.

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They will be interred at a museum and memorial site in Hokkaido.

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