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
Photographs—memories entombed and then sent flying around the web—saturate our digital lives.
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
The ancient Romans built a vast network of aqueducts and canals to harness this semiaquatic environment, now entombed beneath modern Rome.
—Krista Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to 8 million residents — millions of pounds of waste are stranded, entombed in concrete, waiting for the federal government to figure out what the bloody heck to do with it.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
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.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
The ancient Romans built a vast network of aqueducts and canals to harness this semiaquatic environment, now entombed beneath modern Rome.
—Krista Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to 8 million residents — millions of pounds of waste are stranded, entombed in concrete, waiting for the federal government to figure out what the bloody heck to do with it.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
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.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entomb
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All three of the boot styles, alongside a product manifest and brand artifacts — all buried in a container designed to withstand the elements, much like its contents.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Later, the researchers send in ultrasonic waves when the same object is hidden in a complex environment, such as a steel ball buried in sand.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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However, the Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s Office Human Identification Program learned the unidentified remains were likely interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City during a subsequent investigation.—
Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
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Those interred came from a nearby reform facility.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entomb. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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