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inurn

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 1826, Caleb Cushing, Eulogy given on 15 July, 1826, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of [...] John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Hartford: D.F. Robinson, p. 21, Over the insensible marble, which inurns their ashes, a nation bows prostrate in the lowly attitude of mourning,

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English urn English inurn From in- + urn.