intering

Verb

inter (third-person singular simple present inters, present participle interring, simple past and past participle interred)

1. 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

   Synonyms:

   bury, inearth, entomb, inhume

   Antonyms:

   dig up, disentomb, disinter, exhume, unearth

2. To confine, as in a prison.

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