entombv.
/ᵻnˈtuːm/, /ɛnˈtuːm/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtum/, /ɛnˈtum/ 1. transitive. To place in a tomb; to bury, inter.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
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β. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Matius in Panoplie Epist. 115 The exhibiting of deserved honor unto him after he was intumbed.1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. vi. 11/1 King Henry the Sixth..was..intombed at Windsore.1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 187 [The dead husband] is intombed in the house under her bed.1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye 130 Entoumbe thou me in Canaan.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 133 Therein is richly entombed Fatima, daughter and heire of their greatest Prophet Mahomet.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 164 Here is entomb’d the heart of an unconquered hero.
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 189 The remains of the dead found entombed in various parts of Europe.
2. transferred and figurative. To enclose as in a tomb; to overwhelm; to bury. Also absol.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by burying or submerging
gravel1577
entomb1593
immerge1644
snow1880
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 5 b Thou art..entombed in Ashes like Gomorra.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F1 Intombes her outcrie in her lips sweet fold. View more context for this quotation
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 5 They entombe and balist with sodaine destruction.
1665 T. Mall Offer of Farther Help 118 Seas of wrath are..threatning to entomb you.
1745 E. Young Consolation 119 When Time..In Nature's ample Ruins lies entomb'd.
1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. II. xiv. 232 During the great Earthquake of 1693, in Sicily, several thousand people were at once entombed in the ruins of caverns in limestone.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 30 The spirit of the Church is eternally entombed within the four corners of Acts of Parliament.
3. To serve as a tomb for; to receive as in a tomb. literal and figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > swallow up
swallowc1175
to swallow up1526
devour1555
engulf1555
abyss1596
involve1605
flapdragona1616
to suck upa1616
ingurgitatea1620
absorbeate1623
exorbeate1623
entomba1631
gulf1807
begulf1809
a1631 J. Donne Let. in T. Matthew Coll. Lett. (1659) 113 To seem to entomb those affections of mine to your service.
1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple viii Let not a common ruine thee intombe.
1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle v. sig. F5v Some steepy mountaine bury me alive, Or rock intombe me in its stony intrayles.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 22 None of your Ægyptian pyramids, to entomb subscribers' capitals.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 8 If Hell should entomb thee.
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