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 The hand positions of those interred also differed. — Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 24 June 2026 Bianchi had been interred anonymously in a military cemetery in Hawaii. — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026 Lloyd and his wife, Lynne Dewar Lloyd, will be interred together at the Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Lafayette. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 May 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 Dad’s passing last December at age 96 meant this month’s holiday was a first with Dad being with his parents and siblings and other family interred at our small-town Catholic cemetery. — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 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 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 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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However, at least 7,500 remain missing buried under the rubble, the Palestinian health ministry told CNN on June 28.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

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