ENTOMBED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

entombed

verb

past tense of entomb

as in buried

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 entombed Spontaneous applause erupted — and even some tears were shed — at the battered parking structure where Gil had been entombed since the two temblors struck within seconds of each other on June 24. — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 Hall today is entombed at the Signers’ Monument in Augusta alongside Walton. — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 30 June 2026 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 While Soviet authorities entombed that plant in concrete, Tokyo decided on a very different approach — the Fukushima Dai-ichi facility would be entirely dismantled. — Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026 Even followers of British royalty can make a heritage visit to the final resting place of Princess Alice of Battenberg, grandmother of King Charles, who is entombed on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

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Off a cross from Anthony Gordon, Jude Bellingham shook off defenders en route to the left side of the box, and buried home a left-footed shot toward the far post.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 12 July 2026
For just the second time in the nearly 50-year history of the Islamic Republic, the country has buried a supreme leader.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

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On June 26 of this year, Bloch, a Jew who identified as such only when dealing with anti-Semites, was interred in the Pantheon, the final resting place of so many of France’s great literary and cultural figures.

— Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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