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INTERRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does interred mean?
• INTERRED (adjective)
The adjective INTERRED has 1 sense:
1. placed in a grave
Familiarity information: INTERRED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Placed in a grave
Synonyms:
Context example:
the hastily buried corpses
Similar:
belowground (underneath the ground)
Context examples
He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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