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entomb

/ɪnˈtuːm/

entomb verb: to deposit (a corpse) in a tomb.

Verb

entomb (third-person singular simple present entombs, present participle entombing, simple past and past participle entombed)

  1. (transitive) To deposit (a corpse) in a tomb.
    • At Cihhu (Cihu), near the town of Dasi (Daxi), 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is “temporary,” as before his death Chiang had requested his body...2007, Phil Macdonald, Taiwan, 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 122, column 1
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To confine (someone or something) in restrictive surroundings.
    • You mocking Birds (quoth ſhe) your tunes intombe / VVithin your hollovv ſvvelling feathered breaſts, / […] / Raliſh your nimble notes to pleaſing eares, / Diſtres likes dũps vvhẽ [dumps when] time is kept vvith teares.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature H3, verso
    • [A]fter the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54

entomb meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian

entomb in Bengali

কবর দেওয়া, সমাধিস্ত করা

entomb in Malayalam

lay to rest, inter, bury
ശവം കല്ലറയിൽ അടക്കം ചെയ്യുക, കല്ലറയിൽ വയ്ക്കുക, മറമാടുക, മറയ്ക്കുക, പ്രേതക്കല്ലറയിൽ വയ്ക്കുക, കുഴിച്ചിടുക

entomb in Kannada

ಸಮಾಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿಡು, ಗೋರಿಯಲ್ಲಿಡು, ಸಮಾಧಿಯಾಗಿರು, ಗೋರಿಯಾಗಿರು, ಹುಗಿ, ಹೂಳು

entomb in Indonesian

to deposit (a corpse) in a tomb
memakamkan

Forms of entomb

third-person singular presententombs
present participleentombing
past participleentombed
pastentombed
alternative form (obsolete)intomb

Origin of entomb

From Old French entomber (“deposit in a tomb”). Equivalent to en- + tomb.

Words formed from entomb

Words that rhyme with entomb

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Questions about entomb

What does entomb mean?
Entomb means to deposit (a corpse) in a tomb.
What is entomb in Bengali?
Entomb in Bengali is কবর দেওয়া, সমাধিস্ত করা. See Entomb meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is entomb?
Entomb is a verb.
How do you pronounce entomb?
Entomb is pronounced /ɪnˈtuːm/.
What is the past tense of entomb?
The past tense of entomb is entombed.

Words near entomb in the dictionary

  1. entolophids
  2. entolophulid
  3. entolophulids
  4. entolysin
  5. entomaspidiform
  6. entomb
  7. entombed
  8. entomber
  9. entombers
  10. entombeth
  11. entombing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: entomb (page history and authors); Entomb (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entomb (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); entomb (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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