1. to place (cremated remains) in an urn
Usage: formal
2. to bury or entomb
Usage: archaic; literary

Examples

• The family decided to inurn their father’s ashes in a marble urn.
• After the cremation, they will inurn the remains at the memorial garden.
• The cemetery offers services to inurn cremated remains in their columbarium.
• Ancient peoples would often inurn their dead in elaborate vessels.
• The poet wrote of heroes inurned in sacred ground.
• They chose to inurn the ashes rather than scatter them.