inhume

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
inhume
    v 1: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
         Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in
         the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last
         Sunday" [syn: {bury}, {entomb}, {inhume}, {inter}, {lay to
         rest}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inhume \In*hume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inhumed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Inhuming}.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See {Inhumate}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to
      inter.
      [1913 Webster]

            Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
            Inhume the natives in their native plain. --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal
      purposes.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "inhume":
      bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine,
      entomb, hearse, inearth, inter, inurn, lay away, lay to rest,
      plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb
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