interment

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  1. noun The act or ritual of interring or burying.

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  1. from Middle English enterment, entierment, from Old French enterrement, from Middle Latin interramentum, burial, from interrare, bury, inter: see inter and -ment.
 

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/ɪnˈtərmənt/
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