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inhumation — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burial noun The act of placing a dead body into the ground.
  • inhumation noun The act of burial.

Senses

inhumation is used for these senses in English:

  • burial The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
  • humation (archaic) burial, internment, inhumation; by association, death
  • inhumation The act of burial.

inhumation — full definition

  1. noun The act of burial.
  2. noun The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

Related French words