interred
adjective
(of a dead body) placed in a grave or tomb; buried.
uninterred
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a word derived from
interred.
Example Sentences
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Leave untended the herd, The flock without shelter; Leave the corpse uninterred, The bride at the altar; Leave the deer, leave the steer, Leave nets and barges; Come with your fighting gear, Broadswords and targes.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
The most ancient writings have allusions to the shamefulness of a corpse lying uninterred.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
Little I care if I such doom must meet; But I care much not uninterred to leave His corpse that was of the same mother born.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith
And instantly upon being girdled, he proceeded to take part in the ceremony of closing the cave; his predecessor yet remaining uninterred on the purple mat where he died.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
He recounts that the cynic Diogenes had ordered that his body should not be buried after his death but left uninterred.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
