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entomb
[ en-toom ]
verb (used with object)
- to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
- to serve as a tomb for:
Florentine churches entomb many great men.
entomb
/ ɪnˈtuːm /
verb
- to place in or as if in a tomb; bury; inter
- to serve as a tomb for
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Derived Forms
- enˈtombment, noun
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Other Words From
- en·tombment noun
- unen·tombed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
More firefighters and rescue workers entombed in the debris.
You don’t always need to entomb your entire Apple Watch in a case to get the protection you need.
She added that the egg could have been entombed when a nearby river system overflowed during the rainy season, thus preserving it as a fossil.
The entombed individuals are commonly represented by arthropods such as insects—made famous in the original Jurassic Park movie.
After the excavation, we embarked on the long and painstaking removal of the rock that entombed Cooper’s bones.
I thought of the graves more hopeless fur than them that entomb the dead,—the graves where lay the livin' dead.
When the next day should dawn, its light is 'strangled,' and 'darkness does the face of earth entomb.'
See the black Prison Ship's expanding womb Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb.
Thee the dogs shall rend Dishonorably, and the fowls of air, But all Achaia's host shall him entomb.
But the immortal spirit who shall fetter, who shall entomb it?
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