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Interred vs Inurned - What's the difference?

interred | inurned |

As adjectives the difference between interred and inurned

is that interred is having been interred while inurned is of cremated ashes: placed in an urn; buried, entombed.

As verbs the difference between interred and inurned

is that interred is (inter) while inurned is (inurn).

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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    inurned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (inurn)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of cremated ashes: placed in an urn; buried, entombed.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
    • There's no more to be said of Trafalgar, / 'T is with our hero quietly inurn'd [...].