verb
- past tense and past participle of cointer; to bury or inter together with another person or thing in the same grave or tomb
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The two soldiers were cointerred in the military cemetery after the war.
- She requested to be cointerred with her husband in the family plot.
- The ancient rulers were cointerred in a shared chamber beneath the pyramid.
- They were cointerred side by side, as they had wished in life.
- The remains of the siblings were cointerred in a single vault.