be interred
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The pope’s body must be interred between the fourth and sixth day after death.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025
Among other things, it decreed that “a miscarried or aborted fetus must be interred or cremated.”
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2024
A number of families have already been reunited with ashes and some have asked for the remains to be interred in the permanent memorial.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024
For graves without objections, the existing remains will be interred deeper into the same spot, and new burials will take place on top of them.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
I told you, did I not, that my dear father had enjoined on Colonel Graham, should anything untoward occur, that he should send my body home to be interred in the vault of my ancestors?
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
