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Interment

Interment Meaning & Definition
Interment Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Interment?

[n] the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

Synonyms | Synonyms for Interment: burial | entombment | inhumation | sepulture

Related Terms | Find terms related to Interment: burial | burying | clouding | concealedness | concealment | covering | covering up | covertness | darkening | deception | entombment | hiddenness | hiding | inhumation | invisibility | masking | mystification | obscuration | obscurement | occultation | putting away | screening | secrecy | secretion | sepulture | subterfuge | uncommunicativeness

See Also | funeral

Interment In Webster's Dictionary

\In*ter"ment\, n. [OE. enterment, F. enterrement. See {Inter}, v. t.] The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. --T. Warton.

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