MEANING
The burial of a body in the ground.
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- inhumation burial
- evidence of inhumation
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The records described inhumation in a shallow grave.
The excavation revealed evidence of several inhumations.
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- inhumation
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural inhumations for separate burials. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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