as in burial
a final resting place for a dead person
explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries
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as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity
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Recent Examples of tomb
The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
In 2012 and 2022, the discovery of a royal tomb containing an astonishing 58 elite females, 1,300 artifacts, six human sacrifices, and the burials of elite craftsmen alongside gold, silver, and bronze tools brought the site international attention.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 May 2026
Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
Highlights include the Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid—the world’s oldest pyramid—and the Mastaba of Ti tomb.
—Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
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Noun
Sometimes a deep cavity close to a tooth’s nerve can be sealed off, a little like an Egyptian tomb, in an approach called selective caries removal.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
In 2012 and 2022, the discovery of a royal tomb containing an astonishing 58 elite females, 1,300 artifacts, six human sacrifices, and the burials of elite craftsmen alongside gold, silver, and bronze tools brought the site international attention.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 May 2026
Verb
The bed resists public-facing things, hence its charge as a womb to tomb motif.
—Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
Highlights include the Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid—the world’s oldest pyramid—and the Mastaba of Ti tomb.
—Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
Noun
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Meanwhile, Sanz-Royo and her colleagues also put three of the teeth into fancy lab machinery to simulate millennia of burial.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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According to the health ministry, the main challenges in containing the outbreak include early detection and rapid isolation of cases, rigorous contact tracing, safe and dignified burials and strengthening infection prevention and control in health facilities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 June 2026
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The widow has had to tolerate enough of this woman and her husband’s affair and should be allowed to bury him in peace.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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Kai Havertz had buried the first shot of the game into PSG’s net, giving Arsenal a 1-0 lead in the sixth minute of the game.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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The Marby grave brings together cremation, a stone monument, and this ritualistic deposit of bronze objects, which is synonymous with the end of this era when the treatment and use of bronze objects changed—often left in hoards on land or in water, sometimes as offerings to gods or divinities.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 May 2026
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With each passing day, its oldster cast — including Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, and Geena Davis — is closer to the grave.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
31 May 2026
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Dad’s passing last December at age 96 meant this month’s holiday was a first with Dad being with his parents and siblings and other family interred at our small-town Catholic cemetery.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Lloyd and his wife, Lynne Dewar Lloyd, will be interred together at the Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Lafayette.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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The video showed Disneyland visitors squeezing past the lapbars on the closed ride vehicles and walking around the Haunted Mansion cemetery set amid moving animatronic figures and props.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
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Excavations at the site are ongoing, and archaeologists hope future work will provide a clearer picture of the people buried there and the role the cemetery played in the final centuries of Heliopolis.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomb. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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