Interment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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