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entomb

/ɪnˈtuːm

/ /ɛnˈtuːm/

verb [with object]

1Place (a dead body) in a tomb: mummified bodies were entombed in the pyramids of Egypt...

If the Temple of the Sun is geometrical perfection, the Temple of the Condor, where mummified bodies were entombed, is its dynamic, artistic counterpart.
Even the expertly mummified tend to smell bad, so doesn't it make sense that the bodies were entombed with perfumes?
In an especially eerie sequence, her body is entombed in the Usher vault on a lonely island nearby.

Synonyms

inter, place in a tomb, lay to rest, bury, consign to the grave

informal place six feet under, plant

literary inhume, sepulchre

1.1Bury or trap within something: many people died, most entombed in collapsed buildings...

Those left behind had to make do with cloth tents against the bitter cold, limited sanitation, a shattered health service and the constant reminder of their tragedy from the surrounding ruins where many corpses are still entombed.
Relief workers ended by covering the area with lime, entombing the dead in the remains of their homes.
It would hunt down the one that had entombed it, that had left it for dead, thinking that it would be consumed by the fire.

Origin

Late Middle English (formerly also as intomb): from Old French entomber, from en- 'in' + tombe 'tomb'.

单词	entomb
释义	entomb /ɪnˈtuːm / /ɛnˈtuːm/ verb [with object] 1Place (a dead body) in a tomb: mummified bodies were entombed in the pyramids of Egypt... If the Temple of the Sun is geometrical perfection, the Temple of the Condor, where mummified bodies were entombed, is its dynamic, artistic counterpart. Even the expertly mummified tend to smell bad, so doesn't it make sense that the bodies were entombed with perfumes? In an especially eerie sequence, her body is entombed in the Usher vault on a lonely island nearby. Synonyms inter, place in a tomb, lay to rest, bury, consign to the grave informal place six feet under, plant literary inhume, sepulchre 1.1Bury or trap within something: many people died, most entombed in collapsed buildings... Those left behind had to make do with cloth tents against the bitter cold, limited sanitation, a shattered health service and the constant reminder of their tragedy from the surrounding ruins where many corpses are still entombed. Relief workers ended by covering the area with lime, entombing the dead in the remains of their homes. It would hunt down the one that had entombed it, that had left it for dead, thinking that it would be consumed by the fire. Origin Late Middle English (formerly also as intomb): from Old French entomber, from en- 'in' + tombe 'tomb'. Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom
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