Synonyms of interment

interment

noun

in-ˈtər-mənt 

as in burial

the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place

a respectful but nonreligious interment in a private cemetery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burial
• funeral
• entombment
• obsequies
• inhumation
• burying
• sepulture
• interring
• entombing
• inurnment
• obsequy
• embalmment
• reinterment
• reburial
• immurement

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exhumation
• cremation
• disinterment
• unearthing

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of interment

Many built within the last few decades, religious interment sites and spaces for remembering the deceased have become invaluable to expanding communities beyond the predominantly Protestant and Catholic population of Sacramento. —Esther Sun, Sacramento Bee, 7 July 2024

There are no official records, but there is an estimate of 300 to 500 interments or graves in the cemetery. —Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2024

Services were held June 14 at Sol Levinson & Bros. with interment in the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery. —Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024

From the day of death until the interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president or the governor of a state. —Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024