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Definition: INHUME |
INHUMETransitive verb1. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes. 2. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. |
Note: Inhume \In*hume"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Inhumed; present participle verb or noun Inhuming.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INHUME |
| English words defined with "INHUME": Inhumate, Inhuming. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "INHUME": Gunpowder. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "INHUME": Inhumate. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "INHUME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | varros (Bury, entomb, inearth, inter, sepulchre, tomb). (various references) | |
Arabic | دفن (burial, bury, earth, entomb, funeral, inhumation, inter, interment, lay, lay to rest, put away). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заравям (dig in, earth, earth up, embed, imbed, immerse, inearth, inter, mould, plunge), закопавам, погребвам (embowel, entomb, inter, sepulchre). (various references) | |
Czech | pohřbít (Bury, entomb, lay to rest, tomb). (various references) | |
French | enterrer (inter). (various references) | |
German | beerdigen (bury). (various references) | |
Greek | ενθάπτω. (various references) | |
Hungarian | elföldel (to entomb). (various references) | |
Italian | inumare (entomb). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inhumeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inumar, sepultar (bury, entomb), enterrar (bury). (various references) | |
Romanian | înhuma (inter), îngropa (entomb). (various references) | |
Russian | предавать земле (inter), погребать (entomb). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukopati (bury, dig in, dig into, intrench), pokopati (bury, dig, trash). (various references) | |
Swedish | jorda (Bury, earth, entomb, ground), begrava (bury, inter, entomb). (various references) | |
Turkish | gömmek (Bury, commit to the ground, dig in, embed, entomb, immerse, inter, intomb, lay to rest, let in, sink, sink into), defnetmek (Bury, inter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INHUME": inhumed, inhumer, inhumers, inhumes. (additional references) | |
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"INHUME" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Icheme, incum, ineum, Nkhoma, unhume. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-m-n-u" | |
-1 letter: hemin. | |
-2 letters: menu, mien, mine, muni, neum. | |
-3 letters: emu, hem, hen, hie, him, hin, hue, hum, hun, men, mun, nim. | |
-4 letters: eh, em, en, he, hi, hm, in, me, mi, mu, ne, nu, uh, um, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-m-n-u" | |
+1 letter: inhumed, inhumer, inhumes, rhenium. | |
+2 letters: exhuming, humanise, humanize, hymenium, inhumane, inhumers, munchies, murrhine, rheniums. | |
+3 letters: eunuchism, euphonium, humanised, humanises, humanized, humanizer, humanizes, humanlike, humdinger, hymeniums, ichneumon, lunchtime, mujahedin, mushiness, ruthenium, tunesmith, unhelming, unmeshing. | |
+4 letters: bethumping, chumminess, dehumanize, delphinium, enthusiasm, eunuchisms, euphoniums, exhumation, gumshoeing, hegumenies, humanities, humanizers, humdingers, ichneumons, inhumanely, lunchtimes, mujahideen, mulishness, murthering, naumachiae, naumachies, nephridium, numbfishes, punishment, rehumanize, rutheniums, technetium, tunesmiths, unemphatic. | |
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