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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entomb.

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Examples

  • According to Mecum, ALS completely "entombs" its victims.

    Clerical Whispers 2009

  • Is Christianity, which entombs sexuality in guilt and denial, more destructive to male sexuality than Islam, which revels in hyper-masculinity while striving to obliterate female sexuality, or Atheism, which removes all supernatural guilt-trips?

    The Man Project Steven Barnes 2009

  • What about something like the spider wasp, that paralyzes a spider, lays an egg on the still living spider, and entombs it with the egg.

    The Rights Of Animals Jack of Kent 2009

  • I've spent a fair share of my writing career trying to duplicate the opening of that novel, the hellish fog that entombs the bridge Hammer is walking across.

    The Goliath Bone Ed Gorman 2008

  • I've spent a fair share of my writing career trying to duplicate the opening of that novel, the hellish fog that entombs the bridge Hammer is walking across.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

    Charles Bradlaugh (1833-91) 1989

  • It is, then, for the land that you care, the mere face of the country, because it entombs myriad ancestors, because it is familiar in its every aspect, because it overflows with abundant beauty.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

  • Upon the dwelling you occupy, upon the fields you enclose, upon the spot that entombs your ashes, there will be fixed an indescribable gloom and odiousness, to offend the eye and sicken the heart of a virtuous community, till your memory shall perish.

    Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

  • The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

    An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

  • To me the world is a graveyard full of dead, worm-eaten things, and its supposititious Creator, whom you have so be praised in your orisons to-night, is the Sexton who entombs, and the Ghoul who devours his own hapless Creation!

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

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