Verb a burial site where people have been interred for over a thousand years the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery
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Verb
This final act of hypocrisy is intended to inter once and for all the ugly residue of Captain Alvin, whose drunken philandering Mrs. Alving bore as a cross. Charles Mcnulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022 That includes local chapter fees and inter/national fees. Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2022 That includes local chapter fees and inter/national fees. Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2022 Paul Chason, adjutant for the American Legion post, said military, veteran and civic organizations will be able to inter flag ashes at the site. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2021 At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2021 In recent years, French authorities have responded to growing calls to inter more women in the Panthéon, where the vast majority of those buried are men.New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021 Kaunda's funeral arrangements became the subject of a court challenge after the Zambian government announced plans to inter the late nationalist at a presidential burial site in the capital Lusaka, against the wishes of some of his relatives. Nimi Princewill, CNN, 7 July 2021 The medical examiner's office also will take on the expense of interring the remains in the likely event Alice's family can't be found.Dallas News, 28 July 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English enteren, from Anglo-French enterrer, from Vulgar Latin *interrare, from in- + Latin terra earth — more at terrace entry 1
Prefix
borrowed from Latin, prefixal use of inter "among, between," going back to Indo-European *h1en-ter- (whence also Old Irish eter, iter "between," Old Welsh ithr, Breton etre, entre, all from Celtic *enter; Sanskrit antár "within," Avestan aṇtarə); from a nominal derivative *h1enter-o- "part located inside," Old Norse iðr, innr, indr "entrails," iðrar (feminine plural) "bowels," Greek éntera (neuter plural) "intestines," Armenian ənderkʼ (plural), Sanskrit ántara- "located inside," Avestan antara-
Note: Indo-European *h1en-ter- is formed from the locational particle *h1en- "in" (see in entry 1) and the suffix of opposition and contrast -ter-. A zero-grade derivative *h1n̥-tér- is reflected in Old Saxon undar "between," Old High German untar, though in Germanic this etymon appears to have merged completely with outcomes of *(H)n̥-dher- "below, under" (see under entry 1).