verb
- present participle of reinter; burying again, especially moving a body from one grave to another
Usage: formal
Examples
- The family is reinterring their ancestor in the new cemetery.
- After the flood damaged the old graveyard, they began reinterring the remains.
- The historical society is reinterring the Civil War soldiers with full honors.
- Reinterring the bodies required special permits from the city.
- The process of reinterring took several weeks to complete.
- They are reinterring her remains next to her husband’s grave.