entomb

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  1. transitive verb To place in or as if in a tomb or grave.
  2. transitive verb To serve as a tomb for.

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  • In fact, in our view, the OP is very likely to further entomb the most disadvantaged in a social prison especially given neo liberalism's predilection to create under classes wherever it goes. —  Indybay newswire
  • Sadly, the backwards and narrow-minded folks of Crowly Corners encourage and empower Miley to remain closeted, and the film ends with a musical number where the Dolly / Hannah alters entomb Miley and she is hay-ridden off into a illusional, hallucinatory future. —  Boise Weekly - News, Opinion, Music, Events, Dining - Boise, Idaho
  • Roderick, sometime afterward, declares "abruptly" that "lady Madeline" is "no more," and he resolves to entomb her within the vaults of the house for two weeks. —  The Hog's Head
  • The body is important, and the elite went to great expense to mummify and entomb it for eternity. —  Free Internet Press
  • If thou would'st not entomb thyself alive, —  Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
 

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  1. Formerly also intomb; from Old French entomber, from Middle Latin intumulare, entomb, from Latin in, in, + tumulus, a mound, tomb.
 

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/ɛnˈtum/
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