INTERRED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

interred

verb

Definition of interred

past tense of inter

as in buried

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery

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Recent Examples of interred Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years. — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026 Several individuals had been interred within burial cists made of volcanic tuff. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026 On June 26 of this year, Bloch, a Jew who identified as such only when dealing with anti-Semites, was interred in the Pantheon, the final resting place of so many of France’s great literary and cultural figures. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026 If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026 After his lie in state honor at the Idaho Capitol and a public funeral in May, Kempthorne was interred at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise. — Kevin Fixler june 26, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2026 The hand positions of those interred also differed. — Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 24 June 2026 Once a donated cadaver can no longer be used by UCSD, the remains are cremated and scattered or interred in a manner consistent with state law, the university says. — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2026 The Gestapo arrested Mahrer in 1942 and interred him at the notoriously cruel Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026

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The beloved pup died in 1840 and is buried on the grounds of Windsor Castle, per English Heritage.

— Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
Also this week, the county coroner’s office released partially redacted reports confirming that all nine of the people died from asphyxiation after being buried under the snow.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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