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noun

ˈtüm How to pronounce tomb (audio)
Definition of tombnext
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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verb

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
Noun
The most famous item is a birch-bark saddle emblazoned with a prancing horse – the design from which the tomb takes its modern name. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 26 July 2026 Linn said there's anything from dogs associated with deities like Hecate, to dogs found in Mycenaean tombs. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 24 July 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 See All Example Sentences for tomb
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
  1. burial
  2. bury
  3. grave
  4. inter
  5. cemetery
  6. sepulchre
Noun
  • The victim’s cousin launched a GoFundMe that raised $540 as of Wednesday evening for her burial.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Warmooge’s mother, Saluugla, refuses to bury her son without justice, believing burial without accountability would erase his death.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of burial
Verb
  • Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For years, teams have been buried beneath repetitive reporting, administrative work, content revisions and manual research.
    — Niki Hall, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of bury
Noun
  • At the funeral of one of the hostages, drummer Yotam Haim, Fishof watched Yotam’s brother Tuval Haim play a drum solo before placing a pair of sticks on his grave.
    — K.J. Yossman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Construction on the pipeline could mean members of the community must make the decision between digging up their ancestors to preserve their graves or having the graves destroyed in the construction.
    — Madeline Luebkert, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of grave
Verb
  • Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Several individuals had been interred within burial cists made of volcanic tuff.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of inter
Noun
  • In the 1950s, much of the Jewish community in Kochi (historically known as Cochin), a seaport on India’s southwestern coast, immigrated to Israel, leaving behind their homes, synagogues and cemeteries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The discovery shocked the region’s Black community because of the cemetery’s special significance to African Americans.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of cemetery
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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