intomb

American  

[in-toom] / ɪnˈtum /

verb (used with object)

1. entomb.

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Other Word Forms

• intombment noun

Example Sentences

In the 1717 version, which was compiled, with the help of several translators, by Samuel Garth, she calls out, “Gape earth, and this unhappy wretch intomb; or change my form, whence all my sorrows come.”

From The New Yorker

He dies at last in the utmost agonies of despair, after agreeing with an avaricious Undertaker to intomb his bones.

From Project Gutenberg

Goe happy heart for thou shalt lye Intomb'd in her for whom I dye Example of her cruelty.

From Project Gutenberg

In their own books intomb'd their wisdom lies; Too dull for talk, their slow conceptions rise: Yet the mute author, of his writings proud, For wit unshewn claims homage from the crowd; As thread-bare misers, by mean avarice school'd, Expect obeisance from their hidden gold.—

From Project Gutenberg

And breathe, and view the heavens and glorious sun “He gave: that in the Cyclops' jaws my life “Was clos'd not; that when now the vital spark “Me quits, I may be properly intomb'd, “Not in the monster's entrails.

From Project Gutenberg