as in burial
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
Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
This summer, a Texas couple unearthed the ancient tomb of a legendary king in Caracol, Belize, a major Mayan city established in the 300s A.D.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.
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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.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomb
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Over the weekend, CNN and other media posted a video of mourners carrying the body of a protester into the Paradise of Zahra for burial.—
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The burial will be at Center Cemetery, D2 Dividend Road in Rocky Hill, immediately following the funeral mass.—
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Medieval Europeans moved to England consistently A press release by the University of Cambridge continued that researchers studied more than 700 chemical signatures from the teeth of people buried in England between AD 400 and 1100.—
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He will be cremated, with his ashes buried next to his parents in Joliet, Osborne said.—
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Beyond the gate are hundreds of white crosses, marking the graves of Parchman’s long-dead prisoners.—
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And Carillo was brutally stabbed to death, her body tossed into a shallow grave that had been dug in the backyard behind the house.—
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Betsy Ross was once interred at the cemetery before her remains were moved, Yeadon Mayor Rohan Hepkins said at the news conference, and soldiers from every war since the Revolutionary War are buried there.—
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Crump will be cremated, and her ashes interred between her parents in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Front Royal, Virginia.—
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Arrest papers show a cemetery board member first called the police.—
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Adelaida returns from the cemetery to discover her apartment has been taken over by a woman aligned with the regime.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Tomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomb. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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