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inter

verb
🔊/ɪnˈtɜː(r)/
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːr/
 [usually passive] (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they inter
🔊/ɪnˈtɜː(r)/
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːr/
he / she / it inters
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːz/
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːrz/
past simple interred
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːd/
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːrd/
past participle interred
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːd/
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːrd/
-ing form interring
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːrɪŋ/
🔊/ɪnˈtɜːrɪŋ/
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  1. to bury a dead person埋葬（遗体）
    • be interred The princess was interred on an island in the middle of a lake.公主被安葬在湖中央的一个小岛上。
    opposite disinter see also intermentTopics Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryInter is used with these nouns as the object:
    • remains
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French enterrer, based on Latin in- ‘into’ + terra ‘earth’.