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Interbed vs Interred - What's the difference?

interbed | interred |

As verbs the difference between interbed and interred

is that interbed is to interleave between other beds or strata having different characteristics while interred is past tense of inter.

As an adjective interred is

having been interred.

interbed

English

Verb

  • (geology) To interleave between other beds or strata having different characteristics

    • 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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