The present participle of cointer; the act of burying multiple people together in the same location.
From co- (together) + interring (present participle of inter). Describes the ongoing action of joint burial or entombment.
Archaeologists studying mass graves look for evidence of cointerring patterns to understand ancient disasters, wars, or plagues—the arrangement of bodies tells the story of how people died.
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