entomb

[en-toom]

verb (used with object)

1. to place in a tomb; bury; inter.

2. to serve as a tomb for.

   Florentine churches entomb many great men.

entomb

/ ɪnˈtuːm /

verb

1. to place in or as if in a tomb; bury; inter

2. to serve as a tomb for

Other Word Forms

• entombment noun
• unentombed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of entomb¹

1425–75; late Middle English entoumben < Middle French entomber. See en- ¹, tomb

Example Sentences

And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.

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Anderson’s crew entombed their cameras in a custom-built insulated box to prevent their clatter from bleeding into the dialogue and sound of the film.

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Adjacent to the entombed Griffin Warrior’s wrist was a carved and gold-tipped agate, almond-shaped and just 1.3 inches in length, here making its public debut outside Europe.

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Bunker-busting bombs made only in America, flown and dropped by unique American planes, could entomb Iran’s most advanced nuclear equipment burrowed into a mountainside at Fordow.

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The basilica sits near the Colosseum, a stone's throw from the city's endlessly bustling and chaotic central Termini station - well beyond the limits of the Vatican, where popes are traditionally entombed.

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Related Words

• embalm 
• enshrine