From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inhume \In*hume"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Inhumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inhuming}.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See {Inhumate}.]
1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. --Pope.
2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: {bury}, {entomb}, {inter}, {lay to rest}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "inhume": bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hearse, inearth, inter, inurn, lay away, lay to rest, plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb
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