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intombment

intombment is the archaic form of entombment.

Meaning of entombment

Noun

entombment (plural entombments)

  1. The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
  2. The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete

Origin of intombment

From intomb + -ment.

Questions about intombment

What is intombment the archaic form of?
Intombment is the archaic form of entombment.

Words near intombment in the dictionary

  1. intolerators
  2. intollerable
  3. intomb
  4. intombed
  5. intombing
  6. intombment
  7. intombs
  8. intonable
  9. intonaci
  10. intonaco
  11. intonacoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intombment (page history and authors); entombment (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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