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Cremated vs Interred - What's the difference?

cremated | interred |

As verbs the difference between cremated and interred

is that cremated is (cremate) while interred is (inter).

As an adjective interred is

having been interred.

cremated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cremate)

    • cremate

    English

    Verb

    (cremat)
  • To burn something to ashes.
  • To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

    • Related terms

    * cremation * crematorium ----

    interred

    English

    Alternative forms

    * intered (rare)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having been interred.
  • (of a buried corpse) Located.

    • Synonyms

    * (having been interred) belowground, buried, inhumed * (located) buried

    Antonyms

    * (having been interred) unburied

    Verb

    (head)
  • (inter)
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Henry V , Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 509
    • I Richard's body have interred new, and on it have bestow'd more contrite tears than from it issu'd forced drops of blood...

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