Meaning & use
reinter
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Meaning
verbtransitiveformal
to bury a dead body again, especially in a different place
Grammar: Takes an object: reinter the remains.
Patterns
- reinter someone
- reinter a body
- reinter someone in a place
The family decided to reinter their grandfather beside his wife.
Workers reinterred the soldiers in a new cemetery after the war.
The church agreed to reinter the remains under the altar.
Word forms
| third person singular | reinters |
|---|---|
| past tense | reinterred |
| past participle | reinterred |
| -ing form | reinterring |
Common combinations
- reinter the remains
- The authorities reinterred the remains in a marked grave.
- reinter a body
- They had to reinter the body after the cemetery was moved.
- reinter someone in a cemetery
- He was reinterred in a military cemetery in France.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
Commonly confused: reinter or re-enter?
reinter vs re-enter
Re-enter means to go into a place again. Reinter means to bury a body again.
Practice
The family arranged to ______ the remains in a different cemetery.
Choose one answer.
Reinter means to bury a body again, which fits 'in a different cemetery'. Re-enter means to enter a place again, inter means to bury (not necessarily again), and bury is too general for a second burial.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “reinter”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.