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interment

Roget category 363

3. Words relating to matter
3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#363. Interment

noun

interment, burial, sepultureinhumationobsequies, exequiesfuneral, wake, pyre, funeral pilecremation.
funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnitykneel, passing bell, tollingdirge etc. (lamentation) 839cypressorbit, dead march, muffled drummortuary, undertaker, muteelegyfuneral, funeral oration, funeral sermonepitaph.
graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cereclothcerement.
coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn.
grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow housecemetery, necropolisburial place, burial groundgrave yard, church yardGod's acretope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairnossuarybone house, charnel house, dead housemorguelich gateburning ghatcrematorium, crematorydokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence.
sexton, gravedigger.
monument, cenotaph, shrinegrave stone, head stone, tomb stonememento mori [Lat.]hatchment, stoneobelisk, pyramid.
exhumation, disintermentnecropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination [Lat.]zoothapsis.

verb

inter, burylay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tombinhumelay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummifytoll the knellput to bed with a shovelinurn.
exhume, disinter, unearth.

adjective

burried etc. v. — burial, funereal, funebrialmortuary, sepulchral, cineraryelegiacnecroscopic.

adverb

in memoriampost obit, post mortem [Lat.]beneath the sod.

phrase

hic jacet [Lat.], ci-git [Fr.]RIPrequiescat in pace [Lat.]the lone couch of his everlasting sleep" [Shelley]; without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown" [Byron]; in the dark union of insensate dust" [Byron]; the deep cold shadow of the tomb" [Moore]. 2. Special Vitality

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