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Thesaurus: inhume

To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

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  1. v. t. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
  2. v. t. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.
  3. v. place in a grave or tomb
  4. 1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope. 2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.
  5. v place in a grave or tomb