Synonyms for entomb
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : en-toom |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈtum |
Top 10 synonyms for entomb
Définition of entomb
Origin :- 1570s, from Old French entomber "place in a tomb," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + tombe "tomb" (see tomb). Related: Entombed; entombing.
- verb bury
- Entomb him in silence and he'll be a body of death and corruption in two weeks.
- Extract from : « The Thunders of Silence » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
- Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body.
- Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
- To collect them was the first duty of his descendants and followers, and then to entomb them.
- Extract from : « The Masculine Cross » by Anonymous
- Seemingly Wanderslore was fated to entomb one by one all my discarded possessions.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of a Midget » by Walter de la Mare
- See the black Prison Ship's expanding womb Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb.
- Extract from : « The Columbiad » by Joel Barlow
- Thee the dogs shall rend Dishonorably, and the fowls of air, But all Achaia's host shall him entomb.
- Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer » by Homer
- It knows how to do it as well as bees know how to ventilate the hive, or how to seal up or entomb the grub of an invading moth.
- Extract from : « The Breath of Life » by John Burroughs
- I thought of the graves more hopeless fur than them that entomb the dead,—the graves where lay the livin' dead.
- Extract from : « Sweet Cicely » by Josiah Allen's Wife: Marietta Holley
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