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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of inurn.
  • adjective Of cremated ashes: placed in an urn; buried, entombed.

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Examples

  • A Vietnam veteran, he was eligible to be inurned in the Columbarium because he served in a war.

    Ex-Pentagon official Wheeler buried at Arlington 2011

  • The host whose dust inurned has slumbered treads not on week – days the cothurnus.

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • The host whose dust inurned has slumbered treads not on week – days the cothurnus.

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?

    Quotations 1919

  • Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?

    Quotations 1919

  • Had he lived in another age, among other people, his body would have been inurned in the Valhalla of the Brave.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?

    Quotations 1919

  • He commanded that the hearts of Roland, Olivier, and Turpin be taken from their bodies, wrapped, and inurned, and the bodies borne home in chariots.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

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