Entomb

Definition: Entomb

Entomb

Verb

1. Place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday".

Date "entomb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Note: Entomb \En*tomb"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Entombed; present participle verb or noun Entombing.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Energy	A method of decommissioning in which radioactive contaminants are encased in a structurally long-lived material, such as concrete. The entombment structure is appropriately maintained, and continued surveillance is carried out until the radioactivity decays to a level permitting decommissioning and ultimate unrestricted release of the property. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Entomb

Synonyms: bury (v), inter (v), lay to rest (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.
Restraint	Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Entomb

English words defined with "entomb": Entombed, Entombing, Envault ♦ Intomb. (references)

Etymologies containing "entomb": Envault. (references)

"Entomb" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Entomb" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	4	175,879

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "entomb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		begrawe (bury, inter), begraaf (bury, inter). (various references)

Albanian		varros (Bury, inearth, inhume, inter, sepulchre, tomb), shtie në gropë (Bury, inter), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), gropos (Bury, dig in, dig into, ditch, inter). (various references)

Arabic		‏دفن (burial, bury, earth, funeral, inhumation, inhume, inter, interment, lay, lay to rest, put away). (various references)

Bulgarian		служа за гробница на, погребвам (embowel, inhume, inter, sepulchre). (various references)

Czech		pohřbít (Bury, inhume, lay to rest, tomb). (various references)

Danish		begrave (bury, inter). (various references)

Dutch		ter aarde bestellen (bury, inter), begraven (bury, inter). (various references)

Esperanto		entombigi (bury, inter). (various references)

Faeroese		jarða (bury, inter). (various references)

French		mettre au tombeau. (various references)

Frisian		te hôf bringe (bury, inter), begrave (bury, inter), beïerdigje (bury, inter). (various references)

German		bestatten (Bury, inter), beisetzen (Bury, install in its resting place, inter). (various references)

Greek		ενταφιάζω (bury, inter). (various references)

Hebrew		לקבור (earth, inter). (various references)

Hungarian		sírba tesz (to sepulchre). (various references)

Indonesian		menguburkan (inter). (various references)

Italian		seppellire (Bury, inter, overwhelm). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		葬る (to bury, to consign to oblivion, to entomb, to inter, to shelve). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほうむる (to bury, to consign to oblivion, to entomb, to inter, to shelve). (various references)

Manx		cur ayns tomman. (various references)

Papiamen		dera (bury, inter). (various references)

Pig Latin		entombay

Portuguese		enterrar (bed, Bury, earth, grave, inearth, inhume, inter, lay, sepulcher, sepulchre), sepultar (Bury, entombment, grave, inebriate, inimical, inter alia), individualidade (individuality, personality). (various references)

Romanian		îngropa (bury, dig in, dig into, immerse, inhume, inter, pit, scrap). (various references)

Russian		погребать (inhume, sepulchers). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sahraniti (bury, inearth, inter, tomb). (various references)

Spanish		enterrar (bury, flood, forget, grave, inter, overwhelm, plough under, thrust, touch down). (various references)

Sranan		beri (burial, bury, funeral, inter, interment). (various references)

Swedish		begrava (Bury, inearth, inhume, inter, overwhelm, sepulchre). (various references)

Turkish		mezara koymak (intomb), mezar olmak (intomb), gömmek (Bury, commit to the ground, dig in, embed, immerse, inhume, inter, intomb, lay to rest, let in, sink, sink into). (various references)

Ukranian		ховати (bield, conceal, cover, embowel, hide, hide away, hide up, inter, lay to rest, put away, secrete, shut up, stash, tomb, tuck), бути гробницею. (various references)

Yucatec		mukik (bury, inter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "entomb": entombed, entombing, entombment, entombments, entombs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Entomb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ectomy, enbomb, encom, Encombe, endom, enom, Ensom, entame, entem, entym, etom, Eunetcom, Lenchmob, Netmbx, Ntombi, Pencombe. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "entomb" (pronounced entuw"m)
3	-t uw" m	costume, tomb.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-m-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: beton, monte.
	-2 letters: bent, bone, ebon, meno, mote, nome, note, omen, tomb, tome, tone.
	-3 letters: ben, bet, bot, eon, men, met, mob, mon, mot, neb, net, nob, nom, not, obe, one, ten, toe, tom, ton.
	-4 letters: be, bo, em, en, et, me, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on, to.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-m-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: boatmen, entombs.
	+2 letters: boatsmen, bodement, entombed, intombed, trombone, umbonate.
	+3 letters: abominate, bodements, bombinate, brimstone, brominate, entamoeba, entombing, mountable, outnumber, tombstone, trombones.
	+4 letters: abominated, abominates, ambitioned, bevomiting, bombinated, bombinates, brimstones, brominated, brominates, embodiment, embonpoint, embossment, entamoebae, entamoebas, entombment, lobsterman, lobstermen, mountebank, obtainment, outbeaming, outnumbers, procumbent, tambourine, tombstones, tumbledown.
	+5 letters: abandonment, abolishment, amblygonite, balletomane, barnstormed, barnstormer, besmoothing, bicomponent, bimonthlies, bombardment, combinative, debouchment, demountable, embarkation, embodiments, embonpoints, embossments, embrocation, embroilment, embryonated, ennoblement, entombments, indomitable, melanoblast, mentionable, misbegotten, misbuttoned, molybdenite, mountebanks, obtainments, outnumbered, recombinant, tambourines, theobromine, thromboxane, uncombative.
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