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Definition of "uninterred" [uninterred]

  • Not having been interred; unburied. (adjective)

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Use "uninterred" in a sentence
  • "Then he set forward with the greatest part of his army, and in his march casually fell in with several dead bodies still uninterred, of those soldiers who were slain with Triarius in his unfortunate engagement with Mithridates; these he buried splendidly and honorably."
  • "I had good reason, therefore, to keep the natives at a distance here, at a time, too, when the bodies of six white men were said to be still uninterred in this neighbourhood."
  • "The natives resisted these abuses, and a certain Dagóhoy, whose brother's body had been left uninterred to decompose by the priest's orders, organized a revenge party, and swore to pay the priest in his own coin."
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