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entombment

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en·tomb  (n-tm)
tr.v. en·tombed, en·tomb·ing, en·tombs
1. To place in or as if in a tomb or grave.
2. To serve as a tomb for.
en·tombment n.
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Noun1.entombmententombment - the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture
funeral - a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
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entombment [ɪnˈtuːmmənt] N (liter) → sepultura f


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"But since it is quite clear," resumed the Doctor, "that at least five thousand years have elapsed since your entombment, I take it for granted that your histories at that period, if not your traditions were sufficiently explicit on that one topic of universal interest, the Creation, which took place, as I presume you are aware, only about ten centuries before.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
The firm conviction of the necessity of a vegetation possessing a character of tropical luxuriance, to support such large animals, and the impossibility of reconciling this with the proximity of perpetual congelation, was one chief cause of the several theories of sudden revolutions of climate, and of overwhelming catastrophes, which were invented to account for their entombment.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
At the request of Usher, I personally aided him in the arrangements for the temporary entombment.
The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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