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
Following the service, Francis’ coffin was transported in the white popemobile over the River Tiber to be entombed in Rome’s Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
Her skin, ears and even eyelashes were still intact after 50,000 years entombed in ice.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Or, as is still practiced by the Toraja of Indonesia, you might be preserved and entombed and brought out once every few years for family photographs.
—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
Her skin, ears and even eyelashes were still intact after 50,000 years entombed in ice.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Or, as is still practiced by the Toraja of Indonesia, you might be preserved and entombed and brought out once every few years for family photographs.
—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entomb
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The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Any parts of the hull that weren't quickly buried by silt have long since decomposed in the water.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 June 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
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The remains were interred in 1948 at the Normandy American Cemetery.—
Brett Barrouquere,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entomb. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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