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Definition of "interred" []

  • Having been interred. (adjective)
  • Located. (adjective)
  • Simple past tense and past participle of inter. (verb)

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Use "interred" in a sentence
  • "Achmatova and Zamjatin - interred alive throughout their lives - are condemned to create in silence until they die, never hearing the echo of their written words, then that is not only their personal tragedy, but a sorrow to the whole nation, a danger to the whole nation."
  • "Just before this we had by the roadside a common looking Arab burial-place, named _Shaikh Sad_; probably from some Mohammedan devotee of that name interred there; and among the stones about the graves is a fragment of an ancient cornice, deeply sculptured in the pattern here shown."
  • "The word "interred" is used a couple of times when I suspect that "interned" is actually meant."