entombed

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The Lord of Ucupe, as locals have come to call the entombed Moche leader, was in his early thirties when he died.

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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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  • The age in which the martyrs and their principles were kept entombed, by heaping on them reproach and slander, is past, however, not to return again. —  The Life of James Renwick
  • Safely entombed, they go through several larval stages before finally maturing into adults and producing vast numbers of eggs, which pass out of infected horses in their dung. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • When the Pharaoh known as King Tut was entombed, his body was covered in Blue Lotus flowers. —  Find Me A Cure
  • Consider Dylan officially ossified, entombed, and entomed alongside "The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus," "The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus," and so on. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • Our treasures are entombed, and a stone, too great for us to move, is laid over the door of our sepulchre. —  UUpdates - All updates
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