[
US
/ɛnˈtum/
]
[ UK /ɛntˈuːm/ ]
[ UK /ɛntˈuːm/ ]
VERB
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place in a grave or tomb
Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square
The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids
My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday
How To Use entomb In A Sentence
- The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
- According to bury circumstance judgement, put possibly inside circumjacent bigger range in more and dinosaurian fossil, disentomb foreground is very hopeful.
- Bodies lay all around, partially or completely entombed in the debris.
- I know that there is some stiff competition in the house and I will have to be at my most erudite and witty best to get one over on some of these lads and lasses I will be entombed with.
- The nuclear waste has been entombed in concrete many metres under the ground.
- They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
- They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
- A mountain rescue mission yesterday took off for Iceland to recover wreckage from a bomber plane which entombed four men in ice for more than 60 years.
- To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Twenty five years ago, the nebulous gas entombing the dying star at the centre was not hot enough to glow.