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tomb

[toom] ,
–noun
1. an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
2. a mausoleum, burial chamber, or the like.
3. a monument for housing or commemorating a dead person.
4. any sepulchral structure.
–verb (used with object)
5. to place in or as if in a tomb; entomb; bury.

Origin:
1225–75; ME tumbe < AF; OF tombe < LL tumba < Gk týmbos burial mound; akin to L tumēre to swell. See tumor, tumulus


tombal, adjective
tombless, adjective
tomblike, adjective
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