inhume

3 definitions found

inhume - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inhume \In*hume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhumed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Inhuming.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to
        inter.
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              Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
              Inhume the natives in their native plain. --Pope.
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     2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal
        purposes.
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inhume - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  inhume
      v 1: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
           Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in
           the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last
           Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest
           ]

inhume - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "inhume":
     bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine,
     entomb, hearse, inearth, inter, inurn, lay away, lay to rest,
     plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb