Meaning & use
Inurned
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Placed, especially cremated remains, into a burial urn, or more broadly, entombed.
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The family's ashes were inurned together in the memorial garden.
After the ceremony, her ashes were inurned beside her late husband's.
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A rare, literary word built from 'urn'; a related form appears in Shakespeare's Hamlet in a passage about burial and the grave.
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