as in burial
the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place
the entombing of the pharaohs in the pyramids must have been a magnificent sight
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as in burying
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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Noun
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As the one who arranged for his burial, Courson held those rights, the family says.—
David Kushner,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025 -
The press release continued that several Roman burial sites are known in the Augsburg area.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To not reflect that actually feels like burying your head in the sand.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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Mazzulla instructed his assistants — a group that included two ex-NBA players and several former high-level college players — not to take it easy on the overmatched media team, applying a full-court press for nearly the entire game and burying their opponents beneath a barrage of 3-pointers.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Following a funeral in Odinga’s home region, tensions will run high, and four were indeed killed last week in Nairobi after security forces fired shots and teargas to disperse crowds mourning Odinga.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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Jasmine Beverley held a funeral service for her son, Sunny Beverley-Conlin, in the city of Hull in England in June 2022 after giving birth prematurely that May, according to the BBC.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Just as fascinating are Poe’s burial and his reburial 26 years later, an exhumation that adds to his mystique, even if the raw particulars of that reburial do nothing to justify the urban legend of his living entombment.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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And so, with no water left at the surface, major subduction zones would grind to a halt, preventing the entombment of carbon dioxide.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Entombing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entombing. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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