Interred (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. (of a dead body) placed in a grave or tomb; buried: These places are sacred because they contain the interred remains of our loved ones.
  2. forgotten or removed from consideration, as if buried: One of the priority tasks for these activists is to recover the interred heritage of Latin America's revolutionary movements.
  3. placed in the earth or underground: Anodes are installed on the interred sections of pipeline to reduce the corrosion caused by electrochemical action.
noun
  1. a person or persons buried in a grave or tomb:Most of the interred did not have individual grave markers.
verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of inter.
Interred (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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