as in buried
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
there were so many dead that it was impossible to inhume them all promptly
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Much of this prehistoric area is buried underwater today, but not all of it.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
18 Sep. 2025 -
Some of the settings are buried a bit in new menus.—
Eric Zeman,
PC Magazine,
17 Sep. 2025
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More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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For instance, the young woman interred in burial 211 described above is one of several women and children buried with stone axes at the site, upending the notion that axes only belonged to Stone Age men.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Inhumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumed. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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