The Only Use
inter
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Animal Farm
(Edited)
- It had not been possible, he said, to bring back their lamented comrade's remains for interment on the farm, but he had ordered a large wreath to be made from the laurels in the farmhouse garden and sent down to be placed on Boxer's grave.
p. 125.7interment = to be buried (of a dead body)
Definitions:
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(inter as in: inter at the cemetery) burying a dead body
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(2)
(inter as in: inter-city) a hyphenated prefix indicating a relationship between different things
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, inter represents into in a non-standard dialect.