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
Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
New Year's Eve On the morning of New Year’s Eve, people sweep the tombs of their ancestors and then return home.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
Once at the hospital, Cermak reportedly uttered the line that is engraved on his tomb.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
New Year's Eve On the morning of New Year’s Eve, people sweep the tombs of their ancestors and then return home.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Though her burial exemplified nothing extraordinary, as a woman with no status, the surgery demonstrates that the Pazyryk took care to tend to the sick and injured in their society, regardless of their station, Gizmodo reported.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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Her body was sent to Iraq for burial, and a Muslim group in Poland buried her baby.—
Elizabeth Flock,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Derrick White hit back-to-back 3s to wake up the building, and after Brooklyn responded again, Baylor Scheierman buried Boston’s fifth 3-pointer in five tries to push the Celtics back up six.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Then Leighton Ozawa stepped up and buried her attempt, giving the Wildcats a 3-2 lead.—
Christian Babcock,
Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Long was testifying before the House Government, Labor and Elections Committee (GLE) as sponsor of House Bill 552, which calls for a forensic anthropology and archaeological investigation of the site to discover if there may be more unmarked graves.—
William J. Ford,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Feb. 2026
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While Southerners can keep a secret to their graves, Kennedy and Bessette opted to have caterers, waiters, and other reception staff sign confidentiality agreements, too, according to People.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Veterans Affairs and volunteer groups have worked to locate and honor the women, identifying eight interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, including Irma Armanet, whose gravesite had never been marked.—
Loureen Ayyoub,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Roughly 400 are interred in crypts, about 300 in niches, and approximately 15,000 in traditional burial plots.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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As a Community Services District, the water district could potentially assist the cemetery district with some of its needs, Wolski said.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Iranian cemeteries, holy shrines and mosques -- which normally are venues for the 40th-day ceremonies -- have turned into scenes of the most extraordinary ways of mourning in the country, as victims’ families have been dancing to mourn as a sign of defiance.—
Somayeh Malekian,
ABC News,
23 Feb. 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 2 Mar. 2026.
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