Meaning & use
Inurn
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To place cremated remains in an urn, or more generally, to bury or entomb.
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The family chose to inurn their grandmother's ashes in the memorial garden.
His remains were inurned beside those of his wife.
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"Inurn" is a formal, somewhat literary word used chiefly in funerary contexts; it appears in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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