Synonyms of entombment

entombment

noun

as in burial

the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place

the entombment of President Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burial
• funeral
• interment
• burying
• inhumation
• entombing
• sepulture
• interring
• embalmment
• inurnment
• obsequy
• reinterment
• reburial
• immurement

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exhumation
• cremation
• disinterment
• unearthing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of entombment

According to legends that circulated in the Middle Ages, the Codex Gigas was created by a monk in Podlažice who sinned and was sentenced to death by immurement—live entombment in a walled enclosure. — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Under California’s Health and Safety Code, local governments can establish rules for burial, inurnment and entombment, as well as the maintenance of cemeteries, mausoleums and columbariums. — Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

The snow eventually hardens like a concrete entombment. — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026

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, 8 Oct. 2025

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, 15 Sep. 2025

Help came in the form of a shy, 15-year-old named Justin Vannelli who, on the third day of her entombment, was picking up trash along the interstate. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025