'Entomb' definitions:
verb
Place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn:
bury, entomb,
inhume,
inter,
lay to rest]
- Entomb \En*tomb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entombed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Entombing.] [Pref. en- + tomb: cf. OF. entomber.]
To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to
inhume. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
- bottle up,
- box in,
- box up,
- bury,
- cabin,
- casket,
- cloister,
- closet,
- coffin,
- conduct a funeral,
- confine,
- cramp,
- crib,
- encase,
- encoffin,
- ensepulcher,
- enshrine,
- hearse,
- immure,
- inearth,
- inhume,
- inter,
- inurn,
- lay away,
- lay to rest,
- plant,
- put,
- sepulcher,
- sepulture,
- shrine,
- straiten,
- tomb
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