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[en-toom]
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verb (used with object)

to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
to serve as a tomb for: Florentine churches entomb many great men.

RELATED WORDS

embalm, enshrine, inter, inhume, sepulcher, tomb, sepulture, ensepulcher, inurn
Also intomb.

Origin of entomb

1425–75; late Middle English entoumben < Middle French entomber. See en-1, tomb
Related formsen·tomb·ment, nounun·en·tombed, adjective
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Historical Examples of entomb

  • To collect them was the first duty of his descendants and followers, and then to entomb them.

  • I thought of the graves more hopeless fur than them that entomb the dead,—the graves where lay the livin' dead.

    Sweet Cicely

    Josiah Allen's Wife: Marietta Holley

  • Entomb him in silence and he'll be a body of death and corruption in two weeks.

    The Thunders of Silence

    Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

  • Seemingly Wanderslore was fated to entomb one by one all my discarded possessions.

    Memoirs of a Midget

    Walter de la Mare

  • Thee the dogs shall rend Dishonorably, and the fowls of air, But all Achaia's host shall him entomb.

British Dictionary definitions for entomb

entomb

verb (tr)

to place in or as if in a tomb; bury; inter
to serve as a tomb for
Derived Formsentombment, noun
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Word Origin and History for entomb
v.

1570s, from Old French entomber "place in a tomb," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + tombe "tomb" (see tomb). Related: Entombed; entombing.

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