inhumation
Putting underground permanently
Inhumation is burial—placing a corpse in the earth.
The term appears mainly in archaeological and anthropological contexts, where it distinguishes burial from cremation or other methods of disposing of the dead: The site revealed evidence of both inhumation and cremation practices.
The verb is inhume.
Burial container for remains
- casketBurial container
- graveSerious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
tombstone · headstone · epitaph · plot · shroud · graveclothes · pallbearer · interment
Monumental building for interment
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- sepulcherChamber for the dead
- catacombUnderground cemetery passage
ossuary · tomb · necropolis · charnel-house · sarcophagus · pyramid · tumulus · barrow
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- requiemMass for the deceased
dirge · lamentation · obsequies · mourning · mortician · undertaker · embalming · procession
coffin
Burial container for remains
graveyard · tombstone · headstone · epitaph · plot · shroud · graveclothes · pallbearer · interment · entombment
mausoleum
Monumental building for interment
catacomb · ossuary · tomb · necropolis · charnel-house · sarcophagus · pyramid · tumulus · barrow · cairn
funeral
Service honoring the dead
requiem · dirge · lamentation · obsequies · mourning · mortician · undertaker · embalming · procession · hearse
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- burialburial, cremation, interment, grave, entombment
- Bronze Agebronze swords, bronze, bronze tools, bronze jewelry, bronze dagger
- ancient ItalyRome, Romans, Latium, Umbria, Calabria
inhumationexhumation
Recovering buried remains
disinterment · unearthing · digging up · exhuming · reburial
inhumationcremation
Burning the deceased
incineration · sky burial · mummification · cryonics · alkaline hydrolysis
humus, exhume, disinter, exhumation, exhumed, exhuming, disinterment, exhumer