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

Derived Forms

• uninterred
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of interred

inter ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

In 1989, during the French revolutionary bicentennial celebrations, Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon, but Brissot, who advocated the export of the revolution to other nations by force, remains a less-celebrated figure.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 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

After a memorial service in France and a Cuban state funeral, his ashes were interred in Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

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

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

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 "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Related Words

• covered
• hidden