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inhumation

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted ahiimnnotuStarts with IEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

Word origin

From inhume + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
  • Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.

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