Inurn

Quick meaning: Inurn is a verb meaning (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

[…] as the plough turns Some warlike relic from the sod, Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,

Though you exist still, a mere form inurning The ashes of dead fires of thought and yearning,

[…] the Sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, To cast thee vp againe

Each one [crematory] is different, and there is a wide range in the quality of the work they do and the pains they take in combusting and inurning human remains.

Word Forms

• inurns
• inurning
• inurned

Synonyms for inurn

Depending on context, synonyms include bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bury, cremate, reinter, inburn, inure, inturn.

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