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inhume
[in-hyoom, -yoom]
verb (used with object)
to bury; inter.
inhume
/ ɪˈː /
verb
(tr) to inter; bury
Other Word Forms
- inhumation noun
- inhumer noun
- uninhumed adjective
- ˌԳˈپDz noun
- ˈܳ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of inhume1
Example Sentences
Veil is being inhumed Sunday at the Paris monument with her husband Antoine, who died in 2013, in a symbolic ceremony in the presence of her family and dignitaries.
These days, each region is boasting how much foreign food it has torched or inhumed.
Theseus’ bones were piously brought back, and inhumed in Athens, where he was long worshiped as a demigod.
The early Christians inhumed the bodies of their martyrs in their temples.
For this reason they buried the weapons in the graves of their friends, and inhumed several captives with them, that they might have attendants in “the land of spirits.”
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