to tomb
- verb
- /tuːm/
- Archaic
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enterrar
- That tombed her deep in waters cold.
Examples
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The Great Mother is tombed within; she lies too fecund to move....
Fiction book (1992) -
Then the body goes into the tomb, and that too, my friend in Sandy, calls it tomb time.
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That tombed her deep in cold waters.
Fiction book (1992) -
The archaeologists carefully tombed the ancient artifacts before sealing the burial site.
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They decided to tomb their ancestor with dignity, ensuring he received a proper farewell.
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After the ceremony, they tombed the hero in a beautifully crafted stone chamber.
Synonyms
∞
1.7
To put something in the ground and cover it with soil, for example a body or treasure
21
4.0
To bury someone after a funeral
11
8.1
To put a dead body in a tomb or enclose something as if buried
4
8.7
To put a dead body in a grave
1
9.9
To put a dead body in an underground stone room
To put a dead body in a grave or tomb
To put a dead body in a tomb during a ceremony
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Etymology
Tomb as a verb comes from the same old word tymbos meaning 'burial place', and it simply describes putting a body into that burial place. So to tomb someone is to place them in a tomb as part of a burial.