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intermedious | intermedium | intermell | intermembral | intermembranous | interment | intermention | intermesenteric | intermeshed | intermetacarpal | intermetatarsal

interment

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in=ter=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

intermentn. [OE. enterment, F. enterrement. See Inter, v. t.].
     The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.  T. Warton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

interment, n. the burial of a corpse, esp. with ceremony.

THESAURUS

interment

burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, entombment, hiddenness, hiding, inhumation, invisibility, masking, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, sepulture, subterfuge, uncommunicativeness

ROGET THESAURUS

interment

Insertion

N insertion, implantation, introduction, insinuation, planting injection, inoculation, importation, infusion, forcible ingress, immersion, submersion, submergence, dip, plunge, bath, interment, clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement, inserted.

Interment

N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.


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