inter
verb (used with object)
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
were interring
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past progressiveof inter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The soldiers and the farmers were interring great heaps of them wherever he went, digging burial trenches close to the castle, in all the avenues of the park, in the garden paths, around the outbuildings.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
