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

He will be interred on the land he had bought to build his family a home - and where over the last week, the government has been erecting a house for his widow.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 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

A Crow woman, who was on the 355 point of death, was very apprehensive and uneasy in her mind lest she should be interred in the ground, according to the custom of the Whites.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp