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reinter

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in⋅ter

  [in-tur]
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–verb (used with object), -terred, -ter⋅ring.
1. to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
2. Obsolete. to put into the earth.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME enteren < MF enterrer, prob. < VL *interrāre, deriv. of terra earth; see in- 2
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inter 
1303, from O.Fr. enterer, from M.L. interrare "put in the earth, bury," from L. in- "in" + terra "earth."
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