Entomb

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Entomb \En*tomb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entombed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Entombing}.] [Pref. en- + tomb: cf. OF. entomber.]
     To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to
     inhume. --Hooker.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  entomb
       v : place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
           Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed
           in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last
           Sunday" [syn: {bury}, {inhume}, {inter}, {lay to rest}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "entomb":
     bottle up, box in, box up, bury, cabin, casket, cloister, closet,
     coffin, conduct a funeral, confine, cramp, crib, encase, encoffin,
     ensepulcher, enshrine, hearse, immure, inearth, inhume, inter,
     inurn, lay away, lay to rest, plant, put, sepulcher, sepulture,
     shrine, straiten, tomb