inhume

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Latin in and humō (“to bury”).

The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
From what he related, it was clear that he must have been conscious of life for more than an hour, while inhumed, before lapsing into insensibility. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe
The facts that they covered their vertically inhumed dead with five-pointed inscribed mounds set up thoughts in Danforth and me which made a fresh pause and recuperation necessary after the sculptures revealed it. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

bury, entomb, inter, lay to rest

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