Entomb

Quick meaning: Entomb is a verb meaning To deposit (a corpse) in a tomb.

Meaning

To deposit (a corpse) in a tomb.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) To confine (someone or something) in restrictive surroundings.

Example Sentences

You mocking Birds (quoth ſhe) your tunes intombe / VVithin your hollovv ſvvelling feathered breaſts, / […] / Raliſh your nimble notes to pleaſing eares, / Diſtres likes dũps vvhẽ [dumps when] time is kept vvith teares.

[A]fter the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.

At Cihhu (Cihu), near the town of Dasi (Daxi), 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is “temporary,” as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China.

Word Forms

• entombs
• entombing
• entombed

Synonyms for entomb

Depending on context, synonyms include bury, inter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inter, bury, intomb, tomb, tumulate, grave.

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