as in grave
a final resting place for a dead person
explored the historic graveyard and saw tombs that dated back two centuries
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as in to bury
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
Forest Lawn is where many of Tinseltown's immortals are tombed for all eternity
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Recent Examples of tomb
Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
New Year's Eve On the morning of New Year’s Eve, people sweep the tombs of their ancestors and then return home.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Noun
The king later did public penance for this at Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
New Year's Eve On the morning of New Year’s Eve, people sweep the tombs of their ancestors and then return home.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
Noun
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The final episode begins with that wonderful scene with Johnny visiting his mom's grave.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Read Next National Man arrested in death of ex-girlfriend found bludgeoned in shallow grave, NY cops say February 17, 2025 1:32 PM Read Next National Woman missing for 7 months is found dead in Ohio yard, officials say.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacramento Bee,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Knowledge workers routinely report spending 2.5 hours daily searching for information buried in email threads and disorganized files.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Matte, the State Archives administrator, has spent his career buried in these aging paper documents.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Internal excavations confirmed the site as a royal burial chamber on Tuesday.—
Francesca Aton for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2025
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The newer burials, from the 14th and 15th centuries, are inside the chapel, while the older burials, some 1,200 years old, are outside and are made of pits, sometimes covered by a wooden piece or stone arrangement, archaeologists said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The remains of he and his wife were interred underneath.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Shepard’s remains were interred in the Cathedral’s crypt following a memorial service on October 26, 2018, over which Budde and openly gay Rev. V. Gene Robinson presided.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The iron pieces were found in cemeteries in Częstochowa, about a 95-mile drive northwest from Kraków, in southern Poland.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the military section of the cemetery, Ukrainian flags flew over every headstone.—
Kim Barker,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomb. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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