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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of entombing, or the state of being entombed; burial; sepulture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
  • noun The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

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