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IN'TER, a Latin preposition, signifying among or between; used as a prefix.

INTER', verb transitive [Latin terra, the earth.]

1. To bury; to deposit and cover in the earth; as, to inter a dead animal body.

2. To cover with earth.

But it is used almost exclusively to denote the depositing and covering of dead animal bodies.