Meaning & use
Interments
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Acts of burying a corpse in a grave or tomb.
See it in a sentence
The cemetery recorded three interments that week.
Family interments have taken place in the same plot for generations.
A note on using this word
Do not confuse "interment" (burial) with the similarly spelled "internment" (confinement, as in a camp) — the words differ by one letter but mean very different things.
Words with a similar meaning
burialsentombments
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Words with an opposite meaning
exhumations
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