inter

To bury in a grave.

Verb

  1. To bury in a grave.
    • The tomb was discovered on Fenghuangshan (Phoenix Hill) in Chinancheng, Chiangling county, in China’s central Hupeh province. An inscription on a bamboo tablet found in it shows that the corpse was interred in the fifth...

    Synonyms: bury inearth entomb inhume

    Antonyms: dig up disentomb disinter exhume unearth

  2. To confine, as in a prison.

Origin

From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).

Forms

inters interring interred enter

Related

donatio inter vivos inter alia inter alios inter nos inter partes inter pocula res inter alios acta

Derived

cointer interrer reinter