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
That means the bodies weren’t treated or stored properly, with the funeral home failing to embalm, refrigerate, cremate, bury or entomb the remains within 24 hours of taking custody, according to the suspension documents.
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
Diablo Canyon’s reactors are entombed in concrete and sit in separate buildings adjacent to the structure that houses the turbines and generators for both of the plant’s reactors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
Photographs—memories entombed and then sent flying around the web—saturate our digital lives.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
If a 3-ton truck like that is buried, Tillman thought, what else could be entombed at their feet?
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 13 July 2025
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
Diablo Canyon’s reactors are entombed in concrete and sit in separate buildings adjacent to the structure that houses the turbines and generators for both of the plant’s reactors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
Photographs—memories entombed and then sent flying around the web—saturate our digital lives.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
If a 3-ton truck like that is buried, Tillman thought, what else could be entombed at their feet?
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 13 July 2025
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Medieval Europeans moved to England consistently A press release by the University of Cambridge continued that researchers studied more than 700 chemical signatures from the teeth of people buried in England between AD 400 and 1100.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Jan. 2026
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He will be cremated, with his ashes buried next to his parents in Joliet, Osborne said.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Jan. 2026
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Betsy Ross was once interred at the cemetery before her remains were moved, Yeadon Mayor Rohan Hepkins said at the news conference, and soldiers from every war since the Revolutionary War are buried there.—
Emma Caughlan,
NBC news,
9 Jan. 2026
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Crump will be cremated, and her ashes interred between her parents in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Front Royal, Virginia.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Jan. 2026
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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entomb. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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