as in grave
a final resting place for a dead person
explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries
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as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity
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Recent Examples of tomb
Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
Noun
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This scene, showing graves on a computer, was moved to much later in the film, after Elwood has been brutally beaten.—
Hilton Dresden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Feb. 2025
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Back when Marvin worked for Knuckles (Daniel Wu), his last big job was to drive Rose out to an unmarked grave and dump her in it.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Even stripped of defenses, facilities buried deep underground will be hard to destroy.—
Bloomberg Opinion,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Archaeologists just found it In Denmark, archaeologists unearthed a 1,500-year-old collection of weapons and Roman equipment buried by an ancient chief.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Another jar was part of a ceremonial burial for Mr. Halsey in 2021.—
Essence,
Essence,
8 Feb. 2025
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Mass of Christian burial will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 9, at Church of St. Philip in Litchfield.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The individuals were likely interred more than 2,000 years ago, with their graves dating to between 450 and 25 B.C.E.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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At the time Highland was founded in 1909, no cemetery in the city would allow Black families to purchase a burial plot so loved ones could be interred together.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
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Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 21, at St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Hutchinson, with interment in the church cemetery.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Members of the Congolese Red Cross and civil protection workers bury dozens of victims of the recent clashes at a cemetery in Goma on Tuesday.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomb. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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