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
Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Matthew’s account of the empty tomb, followed by ever more elaborate resurrection narratives, serves, Pagels suggests, both to address the practical difficulties of reclaiming the bodies of the executed and to counter skeptical claims that Jesus’ corpse had simply been stolen.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
The tomb also began being used as a ritual site during the ancient Roman era, archaeologists said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Matthew’s account of the empty tomb, followed by ever more elaborate resurrection narratives, serves, Pagels suggests, both to address the practical difficulties of reclaiming the bodies of the executed and to counter skeptical claims that Jesus’ corpse had simply been stolen.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 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
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Additionally, the excavation revealed mass and individual graves from the Greek, Roman, and Late Periods.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Tending to family or ancestral graves is common in South Korea, especially during the spring and autumn months, and similar traditions exist across East and Southeast Asia.—
Yoonjung Seo,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
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The structure is made of opus reticulatum—bricks laid in a diamond pattern—and contains a volcanic rock called tuff: details suggesting high status individuals were buried here, as Artnet News’ Richard Whiddington reports.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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Play defense straight up and Bueckers will bury them.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2025
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Read Next World Soldier unearths 2,600-year-old burial site, Greek artifacts in Ukraine.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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Only a few miles from Selena's burial site, a monument opened in her honor on May 25, 1997.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Among the hundreds of soldiers who are interred at the cemetery are three of Mykola’s friends.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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Because limited space there makes burials a challenge, the traditional Cuban practice is to bury the deceased for six to eight months and then to exhume and inter the remaining bones, Rivero says.—
Collin Blinder,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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During the immediate postwar decades, veterans and their families began to establish veterans' cemeteries, hold memorial services for the dead, build monuments, conduct unit reunions and organize veterans' groups.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2025
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In modern-day Turkey, a cemetery dating to the early Bronze Age holds burials full of luxurious goods—and numerous human sacrifices.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 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 14 Apr. 2025.
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