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Definition of Entomb
1. Verb. Place in a grave or tomb. "Sam cannot entomb Sue "; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
Generic synonyms: Lay, Put Down, Repose
Derivative terms: Burial, Entombment, Inhumation, Interment
Definition of Entomb
1. v. t. To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
Definition of Entomb
1. Verb. (transitive) to deposit in a tomb ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entomb
1. to place in a tomb [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entomb
Literary usage of Entomb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1907)
"... tongue didst speak withal; Lo! why thy soul, set free from martyrdom, Was
crowned by God in angels' company, And angels' hands thy body did entomb. ..."
2. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"In the rage of revenge following his conduct, they might honorably entomb him
alive, with a number of the putrid carcases he had so inhumanly butchered, ..."
3. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1907)
"... tongue didst speak withal; Lo! why thy soul, set free from martyrdom, Was
crowned by God in angels' company, And angels' hands thy body did entomb. ..."
4. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"In the rage of revenge following his conduct, they might honorably entomb him
alive, with a number of the putrid carcases he had so inhumanly butchered, ..."
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