ENTOMB Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

entomb

verb

in-ˈtüm

Definition of entomb

as in to bury

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground

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Recent Examples of entomb In downtown Miami, the contours of a prehistoric Tequesta village and burial site lie entombed under a Whole Foods and a Joe & the Juice. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Lick died at age 80 just a few months later and is entombed at the observatory. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 13 June 2026 And the researchers say these practices, such as kin being entombed together, likely came from Roman culture. — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2026 Sunny had been missing for hours when someone realized he was entombed under a driveway. — Mark Price april 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for entomb

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These included a child buried face down, a skeleton positioned as in a crucifixion, graves with stones placed around the skull as if to prevent biting or movement, as well as other graves with sickles and padlocks.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
As the Danube waters shrank in Bulgaria, researchers were thrilled to find and recover a jawbone, tusks, a shoulder blade, ribs and other bone fragments belonging to an extinct woolly mammoth buried deep in the sand.

— CBS News, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

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By comparison, according to the study, the burial robes of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Habsburg, interred around the same time in Kraków in southern Poland, contain not a single pure gold thread.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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