Interment

Definitions

The act of burying a dead body; burial.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape⟳. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape⟳ and design⟳, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like⟳ those found at Thunder Hill.”

“She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.”

“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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