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inhumation

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in⋅hume

  [in-hyoom or, often, -yoom]
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–verb (used with object), -humed, -hum⋅ing.
to bury; inter.
Origin:
1610–20; < ML inhumāre, equiv. to L in- in- 2 + -humāre, deriv. of humus earth (see humus ); cf. exhume

Related forms:
in⋅hu⋅ma⋅tion, noun
in⋅hum⋅er, noun
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in·hume   (ĭn-hyōōm')   
tr.v.   in·humed, in·hum·ing, in·humes
To place in a grave; bury.

[French inhumer, from Old French, from Latin inhumāre : in-, in; see in-2 + humus, earth; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]
in'hu·ma'tion n., in·hum'er n.
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