inhume

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=hume

CIDE DICTIONARY

inhume, v. t. [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.].

•  To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.  [1913 Webster]

  "Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
  Inhume the natives in their native plain."  [1913 Webster]
•  To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inhume, v.tr. literary bury.

Derivative

inhumation n.

Etymology

L inhumare (as IN-(2), humus ground)

THESAURUS

inhume

bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hearse, inearth, inter, inurn, lay away, lay to rest, plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb

ROGET THESAURUS

inhume

Interment

VB inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel, inurn, exhume, disinter, unearth.