interment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

interment
    n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {burial},
         {entombment}, {inhumation}, {interment}, {sepulture}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Interment \In*ter"ment\, n. [OE. enterment, F. enterrement. See
   {Inter}, v. t.]
   The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth;
   burial; sepulture; inhumation. --T. Warton.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "interment":
      burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering,
      covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, entombment,
      hiddenness, hiding, inhumation, invisibility, masking,
      mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, putting away,
      screening, secrecy, secretion, sepulture, subterfuge,
      uncommunicativeness

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