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
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.
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
Footage of the pope's funeral Pope Francis' coffin has been entombed.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Stopped right there and buried partially under hundreds of pounds of ice; entombed.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
Today, the base lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice.
—Isabel Van Brugen
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
Footage of the pope's funeral Pope Francis' coffin has been entombed.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Stopped right there and buried partially under hundreds of pounds of ice; entombed.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
Today, the base lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice.
—Isabel Van Brugen
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entomb
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If a body is here, whoever buried it didn’t bother digging deep, because there’s no fear of getting caught.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Special effects buried gas lines underground and integrated them into the structure so the blaze could be easily started and stopped.—
Daron James,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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At first, the remains of U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces personnel were interred in the Schofield Barracks Cemetery until the American Graves Registration Service disinterred the remains in August 1947.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Tillich’s ashes were interred here in 1966, a year after New Harmony was designated a National Historic Landmark.—
Rima Suqi,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entomb. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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