as in grave
a final resting place for a dead person
explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries
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as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity
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Recent Examples of tomb
Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 June 2025
This is the third tomb found at Caracol that dates back to around A.D. 350.
—Kerry Breen
july 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
Theo decides to take the group on a tour of the ol’ family tomb room below, which, yes, does include the plots for both him and Nan because nothing screams romance like showing a woman where her corpse will be buried one day.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 June 2025
This is the third tomb found at Caracol that dates back to around A.D. 350.
—Kerry Breen
july 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
Verb
In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
Noun
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The brothers were buried in a single grave, their white caskets stacked gently atop each other.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
29 July 2025
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While trying to walk through Bay Ridge, where a netting of low-growing vegetation latches onto shoes, a visitor can find small American flags poking out of weeds that draw attention to graves for veterans of World War I, World War II and other wars not identified.—
Brian Bell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 July 2025
Verb
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Visualizations, correlation maps and plain-language summaries must be built into the interface—not buried in logs or reserved for advanced users.—
Karthik Sj,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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The brothers were buried in a single grave, their white caskets stacked gently atop each other.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
29 July 2025
Noun
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Further isotopic analysis may shed light on his lifestyle and diet, along with any other possible links to other burials.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
21 July 2025
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Dixon is still in Pennsylvania, but her family wants to bring her home for a funeral and burial.—
Bella Waters,
Kansas City Star,
10 July 2025
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Francis is the first pope in over a century not to be interred at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Like yesterday, and the days before, she is interred in the ground up to her waist, the afterthought of some unnamed apocalypse.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
Noun
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However, probably my favorite place to stay is in Recoleta, home to the imposing cemetery where Eva Peron is buried.—
Liza B. Zimmerman,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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And hundreds, if not thousands, of jack-o-lanterns in all sizes and colors, a zoo of skeleton animals (even octopus), cutesy yard signs, gigantic inflatables and enough grave stones to fill a cemetery.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 July 2025
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomb. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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