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interring

verb as in bury

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After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at a United Nations military cemetery.

Unlike interring the ashes, you can’t later decide to retrieve or move the ashes — they commingle with the soil.

There is also the fact that the group advocating for interring the remains mostly consists of people of color while the park stewards are mostly white.

We wouldn’t be interring him in the Atlantic, but a pauper’s grave was just as permanent.

“That is because the decision succeeded in interring this sort of legislation and keeping it from spreading all around the country.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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