Inter
[ɪn'tɜː] or [ɪn'tə]
Definition
(v. t.) To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Bury (with funeral rites), inhume, entomb, inurn.
Typed by Clint
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bury, inhume, entomb
ANT:Exhume, disinter
Checked by Jean
Definition
v.t. to bury:—pr.p. inter′ring; pa.p. interred′.—n. Inter′ment.
Editor: Thea
Examples
- The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wanted to keep it on the plane of suggestion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It has now been adopted by a great many business organizations as a convenient means of inter-communication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But let's look inter it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Inter-communication between the various Christian communities was very active. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The relation between her and her husband was wordless and unknown, but it was deep, awful, a relation of utter inter-destruction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You would like to know how I can justify it, inter-posed Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Pain has been robbed of its terrors by an?sthesia; the heat of the sun has been brought down in the electric furnace, and the cold of inter-stellar space in the ice machine and liquid air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One of the best-known Neanderthal skeletons is that of a youth who apparently had been deliberately interred. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That grief over which I had lately been weeping, as I wrapped it in its winding-sheetmust be interred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Not in the dust of household drawers shall the coin be interred. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Lucinda