Definition of Entomb

1. Verb. Place in a grave or tomb. "Sam cannot entomb Sue "; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"

Exact synonyms: Bury, Inhume, Inter, Lay To Rest
Generic synonyms: Lay, Put Down, Repose
Derivative terms: Burial, Entombment, Inhumation, Interment

Definition of Entomb

1. v. t. To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

Definition of Entomb

1. Verb. (transitive) to deposit in a tomb ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entomb

1. to place in a tomb [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entomb

entocuniform
entoderm
entodermal
entodermal cells
entodermic
entoderms
entoectad
entogastric
entogenous
entoglossal
entognath
entoil
entoiled
entoiling
entoils
entomb (current term)
entombed
entombing
entombment
entombments
entombs
entomere
entomeres
entomic
entomical
entomion
entomo-
entomobirnavirus
entomofauna
entomofaunae

Literary usage of Entomb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1907)
"... tongue didst speak withal; Lo! why thy soul, set free from martyrdom, Was crowned by God in angels' company, And angels' hands thy body did entomb. ..."

2. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"In the rage of revenge following his conduct, they might honorably entomb him alive, with a number of the putrid carcases he had so inhumanly butchered, ..."

3. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1907)
"... tongue didst speak withal; Lo! why thy soul, set free from martyrdom, Was crowned by God in angels' company, And angels' hands thy body did entomb. ..."

4. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"In the rage of revenge following his conduct, they might honorably entomb him alive, with a number of the putrid carcases he had so inhumanly butchered, ..."

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