"inhumation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/ Forms: inhumations [plural]
Etymology: From inhume + -ation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|inhume|ation}} inhume + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)
  1. The act of burial. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (The act of burial): погребение (pogrebenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), inhumació [feminine] (Catalan), inhumation [feminine] (French), inhumación (Galician), enterramento [masculine] (Galician), soterramento [masculine] (Galician), Inhumation (english: archeological) [feminine] (German), Erdbestattung [feminine] (German), Beerdigung [feminine] (German), inumazione [feminine] (Italian), inhumacja [feminine] (Polish), pochówek [masculine] (Polish), inhumación (english: archeological) [feminine] (Spanish), entierro [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-inhumation-en-noun-nKr9kAca Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 37 40 Disambiguation of 'The act of burial': 79 17 4
  2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-inhumation-en-noun-jM7dPebO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ation Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 37 40 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ation: 27 42 31
  3. (medicine) arenation Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-inhumation-en-noun-zvKdGL5s Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 37 40 Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: burial, entombment, interment

Inflected forms

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