inhume Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb place in a grave or tomb
    lay to rest; inter; bury; entomb.
    • Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square
    • The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids
    • My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday

WordNet

In*hume" transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Inhumed ; present participle & verbal noun Inhuming
Definitions
  1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
    Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.
  2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

Webster 1913