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单词 entombments
释义

entomb

verb

en·​tomb in-ˈtüm How to pronounce entomb (audio)
en-
entombed; entombing; entombs

transitive verb

1
: to deposit in or as if in a tomb : bury
2
: to serve as a tomb for
entombment
in-ˈtüm-mənt How to pronounce entomb (audio)
en-
noun

Synonyms

  • bury
  • hearse
  • inhume
  • inter
  • lay
  • put away
  • tomb
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Example Sentences

a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground
Recent Examples on the Web The occupiers attempted to counter the partisans by gassing the tunnels and sealing off access points to entomb them, but the rebels persisted. Will Hunt, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2022 But even his flytraps were improbably large, big enough to entomb and consume a human. Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022 The firefighters eventually used Portland cement to entomb the smoldering ruins. Merrill Goozner, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2021 For Palestinians in Gaza, watching their neighborhoods collapse and pillars of smoke entomb their homes, the suffering is only deepening. Washington Post, 14 May 2021 After the water in their environment dries up, the minerals are left behind and entomb those microbes, forming stromatolites. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2021 Similar concrete pads are often used to entomb nuclear waste. Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021 Cemeteries rejected those they were meant to entomb. Hisham Melhem, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2020 The site northwest of Las Vegas was first proposed in the 1980s to entomb 77,000 tons of the nation’s most highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English entoumben, from Middle French entomber, from en- + tombe tomb

First Known Use

1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1

entombments

noun

plural of entombment
as in burials
the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place the entombment of President Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • burials
  • funerals
  • inhumations
  • interments
  • obsequies
  • inurnments
  • sepultures
  • embalmments
  • reburials
  • reinterments
  • immurements

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • disinterments
  • exhumations
  • cremations
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