INTERRED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

interred

verb

Definition of interred

past tense of inter

as in buried

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery

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Recent Examples of interred Nisa Torer, 14, and 56-year-old Nihat Balyemez were interred in the southern city of Gaziantep, while Huseyin Ozdemir was buried in Silifke, Mersin province. — Andrew Wilks, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 According to People, Dean was interred in a mausoleum at the cemetery. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026 After Dean died in March 2025, he was interred in a mausoleum at the cemetery, and a large plaque was mounted that also listed Dolly’s name. — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 30 Aug. 2026 By comparison, according to the study, the burial robes of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Habsburg, interred around the same time in Kraków in southern Poland, contain not a single pure gold thread. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years. — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026 Several individuals had been interred within burial cists made of volcanic tuff. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026 On June 26 of this year, Bloch, a Jew who identified as such only when dealing with anti-Semites, was interred in the Pantheon, the final resting place of so many of France’s great literary and cultural figures. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026 If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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buried

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Four-month-old Maytie Raker was buried in 1906 without a grave marker.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
More than 600 people have been killed, homes buried to the ground and entire villages washed away in the aftermath.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

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