Meaning

2 senses
  1. The act of entombing or the state of being entombed

  2. The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete

More definitions
  • the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

Forms

plural: entombments

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedentomb

See also

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