intered
intered is the alternative spelling of interred.
intered is the simple past and past participle of inter.
Meaning of interred
Adjective
interred (not comparable)
- Having been interred.
- Synonyms:
- belowground, buried, inhumed
- Located.
- Synonyms:
- buried
Meaning of inter
Verb
inter (third-person singular simple present inters, present participle interring, simple past and past participle interred)
- To bury in a grave.
- The tomb was discovered on Fenghuangshan (Phoenix Hill) in Chinancheng, Chiangling county, in China’s central Hupeh province. An inscription on a bamboo tablet found in it shows that the corpse was interred in the fifth moon of the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Wen, that is, in 167 B.C.1975 October, “Newly-Found Han Tomb Relics and Male Corpse”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 10, Peking, →OCLC, page 40, column 1
- To confine, as in a prison.
Forms of intered
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Questions about intered
- What is intered the alternative spelling of?
- Intered is the alternative spelling of interred.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: intered (page history and authors); interred (page history and authors); inter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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