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in·ter·ment  (n-tûrmnt)
n.
The act or ritual of interring or burying.
interment
Noun
a burial
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.intermentinterment - the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
burial, entombment, inhumation, sepulture
funeral - a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
Translations
interment [ɪnˈtəːmənt] n → inhumation f, enterrement m
interment [ɪnˈtəːmənt] n → Bestattung f
interment [ɪnˈtəːmənt] n (formal) → inumazione f
interment inter


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The legal representative of the dead man was left to provide for the necessities of the interment, and the witnesses were free to retire.
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The place of Catherine's interment, to the surprise of the villagers, was neither in the chapel under the carved monument of the Lintons, nor yet by the tombs of her own relations, outside.
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I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided, were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let To Let To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.
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