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Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To bury in a grave.

   The tomb was discovered on Fenghuangshan (Phoenix Hill) in Chinancheng, Chiangling county, in China’s central Hupeh province. An inscription on a bamboo tablet found in it shows that the corpse was interred in the fifth moon of the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Wen, that is, in 167 B.C.

2. 2
   verb

   place in a grave or tomb

3. 3
   verb

   To confine, as in a prison.

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From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).

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