英:[ɪn'hju:m]
美:[ɪn'hjum]
英:[ɪn'hju:m]
美:[ɪn'hjum]
in·hume
In hyum
第三人称单数:inhumes
现在分词:inhuming
过去式:inhumed
过去分词:inhumed
词根:inhume
n.inhumation 土葬;埋葬
Verb
1. place in a grave or tomb;
"Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"
"The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"
"My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
"埋葬,放入坟墓",大约1600年,源自拉丁语 inhumare "埋葬",字面意思是"放入地下",由 in- "在"(来自 PIE 词根 *en "在")和 humus "土壤,泥土"(参见 humus)组成。相关词汇: Inhumed; inhuming。
probably from French inhumer, from Medieval Latin inhumare, from Latin in- + humus earth — more at humble
The first known use of inhume was in 1604
1 Shortly before sundown Cuthbert and Cookie were despatched by Dugald Shaw to the cliff above the cave with supplies for the inhumed pirates.
2 In the fossiliferous strata are inhumed the remains of the floras and faunas of past ages.
3 Among the Natchez the dead were either inhumed or placed in tombs.
4 The Chinese inhume their dead at some distance from their cities and towns; it is only the bodies of the rich and noble that are allowed to remain on the premises of the family.
5 Though the prisons were thrown open, the Beaumont family still lingered near the abode wherein they had been so long inhumed.
6 The whole nation was sometimes assembled at this solemnity; and hundreds of corpses, brought from their temporary resting-places, were inhumed in one common pit.
7 Alas! who ever knew Sorrow in all its shapes, leafy and plumed, Or in gross husks of brutes eternally inhumed?
8 Price Ruyler knew that many secrets had been inhumed by the earthquake and fire of San Francisco and wondered if his wife's had been one of them.
9 The Mandans, of the Upper Missouri, never inhume or bury their dead, but place their bodies, according to Mr. Catlin, on light scaffolds, out of the reach of the wolves and foxes.
10 In this magnificent cavern, Ibrahim, as it were, inhumed his son, together with his governess, of whose care, and fidelity he had no doubt.
11 The treasures are inhumed again in their respective holes: they are not ours.
12 The megalithic people may even have been a branch of the same vast race as the neolithic: this would explain the fact that both inhumed their dead in the contracted position.
13 The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil.
14 The people of the Dipylon period sometimes cremated, sometimes inhumed, but they built no barrow over the dead.
15 He says, moreover, that a noise was often heard in churches where the dead were inhumed, and that dead persons have been seen often to enter the houses wherein they dwelt before their decease.
16 It may be absurd to wait too long; it is indecorous to inhume too soon.
17 Who lies inhumed in the terrific gloom Of the gigantic pyramid? or who Rear'd its huge walls?
18 From what he related, it was clear that he must have been conscious of life for more than an hour, while inhumed, before lapsing into insensibility.
19 The Monk of Angouleme declares that he was inhumed in his imperial robes, and that the pilgrim's wallet which he wore on his journeys to Rome was also consigned with his body to the tomb.
20 In the touring production presented by Broadway in Boston and inhumed at the Citizens Bank Opera House through May 14, the life we’re given gets all the bells and whistles, not to mention props and wisecracks.