MEANING
To place a dead body in the ground or a burial place.
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Words that belong together
- inhume the dead
- inhumed remains
On the page
They inhumed the dead beyond the old boundary stone.
The record gave a date but no name for the person inhumed there.
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Word forms
- Base
- inhume
- Past tense
- inhumed
- Past participle
- inhumed
- Present participle
- inhuming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- inhume
- Present continuous
- am/is/are inhuming
- Present perfect
- have/has inhumed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been inhuming
- Past
- inhumed
- Past continuous
- was/were inhuming
- Past perfect
- had inhumed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been inhuming
- Future
- will inhume
- Future continuous
- will be inhuming
- Future perfect
- will have inhumed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been inhuming
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: inhume; inhumes; inhumed; inhumed; inhuming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: inhumes.
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