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View synonyms for entomb

entomb

[ en-toom ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
  2. to serve as a tomb for:

    Florentine churches entomb many great men.



entomb

/ ɪnˈtuːm /

verb

  1. to place in or as if in a tomb; bury; inter
  2. to serve as a tomb for


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Derived Forms

  • enˈtombment, noun

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Other Words From

  • en·tombment noun
  • unen·tombed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of entomb1

1425–75; late Middle English entoumben < Middle French entomber. See en- 1, tomb

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Example Sentences

I thought of the graves more hopeless fur than them that entomb the dead,—the graves where lay the livin' dead.

When the next day should dawn, its light is 'strangled,' and 'darkness does the face of earth entomb.'

See the black Prison Ship's expanding womb Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb.

Thee the dogs shall rend Dishonorably, and the fowls of air, But all Achaia's host shall him entomb.

But the immortal spirit who shall fetter, who shall entomb it?

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