interring

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It notes that mass burials and mass graves were "not a customary way of interring the dead in the Roman Empire", and were mostly used in extreme situations and mass casualty events.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022

There are enormous practical difficulties, often involving by-laws on the burial of human remains, when it comes to interring so many bodies.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020

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

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros