English to French Meaning of entomb - mettre au tombeau

Entomb :

mettre au tombeau

verb

mettre au tombeau, enterrer, tombeau, sépulcre, entre

Entomb :: mettre au tombeauEntombed :: enterréEntombing :: ensevelissantEntombment :: mise au tombeauEntombs :: ensevelit

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Definitions of entomb in English

Verb(1) place in a grave or tomb

Examples of entomb in English

(1) We have found a place, not far, where we can entomb the Doctor's body.(2) Then one day Usher announced to his friend that Madeline was ├ö├ç├┐no more,├ö├ç├û and that he intended to entomb her body in the house's dungeon rather than bury it.(3) Since there was no body to entomb there is no shrine to him to which pilgrims can repair.(4) The body is buried or entombed in a brick or concrete structure.(5) When he died, his body was entombed at Junagadh in Gujarat, which thereafter became an important pilgrimage destination for Indian Sidhis.(6) The tree of heaven opposite the church of Saints Peter and Paul was still entombed deep inside its branches but the faintest yellow-green fuzz had begun to blur the outline of willows on the banks of the River Vistula.(7) And I didn't want my thesis to be entombed on some library shelf.(8) Relief workers ended by covering the area with lime, entombing the dead in the remains of their homes.(9) Bodies lay all around, partially or completely entombed in the debris.(10) They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.(11) Rubble then crashed through the floors, entombing the three workers on the ground floor.(12) About 100,000 people gathered to see the Pope's body make its solemn journey from the Vatican's Apostolic Palace to his local church, St Peter's, where it will be entombed alongside popes from throughout history.(13) The town's cemetery is packed to overflowing, and unless families can pay the requisite sum for eternal entombment , bodies are evicted after five years.(14) The remains of Henry VIII and the beheaded Charles I are entombed there, along with the bodies of the Queen's parents, George VI and the Queen Mother.(15) He was also one of the first American paleontologists to draw attention to taphonomic processes: the environments of death, decay, burial, and entombment .(16) The solution is entombment in the deep sediments of abyssal plains in the oceans that now cover 71 percent of the planet.

Related Phrases of entomb

(1) entomb ::

mettre au tombeau

Related Phrases of entomb

(1) entomb ::

mettre au tombeau

Synonyms

Verb

1. inter ::

entre

2. lay to rest ::

enterrer

3. bury ::

enterrer

4. plant ::

plante

5. inhume ::

enterrer

Antonyms

1. disinter ::

déterrer

2. exhume ::

exhumer

3. unearth ::

dénicher

Different Forms

entomb, entombed, entombing, entombment, entombs

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