interment — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act of burying a dead body; burial.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Related words

   internment

   Examples

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   In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like those found at Thunder Hill.

   She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.

   The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.

Noun

1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

   Synonyms

   burialentombmentinhumationsepulture

   Broader terms

   funeralobsequy