as in grave
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
Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025
The inscriptions date back to the 26th Dynasty, also indicating that the tomb may have been reused nearly 2,000 years after Waserif Re’s interment.
—Francesca Aton For Artnews, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
The release came Sunday morning, as the tomb opened for public viewing.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025
The inscriptions date back to the 26th Dynasty, also indicating that the tomb may have been reused nearly 2,000 years after Waserif Re’s interment.
—Francesca Aton For Artnews, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
Noun
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The animal’s human rider, a Roman soldier, buried the creature in a shallow grave.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 May 2025
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Loomer reportedly wasted no time dancing on Waltz’s grave.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Prominent government leaders like John F. Kennedy and Thurgood Marshall, as well as famous women including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Grace Hopper, are buried here, too.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Here in Paris, he is technically buried on American soil: earth from the Battle of Bunker Hill.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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Funeral home director accused of taking grieving pet parents' money, dumping animals in landfill Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday says more than 6,000 pet owners were given ashes that did not belong to their pets after paying for burial services.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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But in the decades since, various construction projects have revealed smaller satellite burial groups of about 10 people, according to the release.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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She was interred at Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, which is also where Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is buried.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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Kristopher Allen Sequoia Lunsford-Barrett grew up in San Diego and was interred there after his death, according to an obituary shared online.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
29 Apr. 2025
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Then, instead of going to an L.A. cemetery to bury him, Athena and her children board a plane with Bobby’s casket and take him back to St. Paul, Minnesota to be buried with his first wife, Marcy, and his two children, Robert Jr. and Brooke.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
2 May 2025
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Officials in Groton, Connecticut, on Monday announced the arrest of a man in connection with the murder of Suzanne Wormser, 58, whose body was found dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase near a cemetery on March 19.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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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 18 May. 2025.
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