inurning

verb

present participle of inurn
as in immuring

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  1. putting away
  2. burying
  3. enshrining
  4. entombing
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  • But no series ostensibly for children has worked harder to guilt-trip adults into taking better care of their pets or belongings than the Toy Story movies, in which the mere act of putting away playthings is tantamount to mass murder.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Try one undistracted meal a week Finding the time for just one dedicated family meal a week — putting away the phone for 20 to 30 minutes during breakfast, lunch or dinner — could be worth it when the nightly affair is simply not going to happen.
    — Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 16 June 2026
Definition of putting away
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  • No mother should endure the agony of cremation and/or burying their child.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • It’s been over three decades since Wood was convicted of murdering six young women and girls and burying their bodies near El Paso – crimes for which he was nicknamed the Desert Killer.
    — Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
Definition of burying
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  • So this was really a dispute among the justices about understanding how far the victors basically of the civil war wanted to go in enshrining ideas about broad US citizenship.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Earlier this year, the General Assembly passed the Maryland Voting Rights Act, enshrining components of the federal VRA into state law.
    — Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
Definition of enshrining
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  • The entrance of the cave was filled with concrete, entombing the body inside.
    — Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 22 Nov. 2025
Definition of entombing
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