interment

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From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement.

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interment (countable and uncountable, plural interments)

  1. The act of burying a dead body; burial.
    • 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 784:
      She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 189:
      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.

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