as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground
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Behind the closet door lay her old ambitions, entombed.
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Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
On Friday afternoon, divers on a D.C. police boat maneuvered through slabs of ice atop the water and recovered the second of two dead bodies—a pickup truck had careened off the Memorial Bridge and been entombed under the surface.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
By the night of Sunday, January 13, 1952, snow would bury the train, entombing everyone inside for the next three days.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Today, the gold entombed within the Pacific is estimated to be worth upward of $5 million.
—Joel Sams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
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Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
On Friday afternoon, divers on a D.C. police boat maneuvered through slabs of ice atop the water and recovered the second of two dead bodies—a pickup truck had careened off the Memorial Bridge and been entombed under the surface.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
By the night of Sunday, January 13, 1952, snow would bury the train, entombing everyone inside for the next three days.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Today, the gold entombed within the Pacific is estimated to be worth upward of $5 million.
—Joel Sams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for entomb
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“Entomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entomb. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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