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intomb

intomb is the archaic form of entomb.

Meaning of entomb

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

Forms of intomb

third-person singular presentintombs
present participleintombing
past participleintombed
pastintombed

Words formed from intomb

Questions about intomb

What is intomb the archaic form of?
Intomb is the archaic form of entomb.

Words near intomb in the dictionary

  1. intolerating
  2. intoleration
  3. intolerator
  4. intolerators
  5. intollerable
  6. intomb
  7. intombed
  8. intombing
  9. intombment
  10. intombs
  11. intonable

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