Definitions
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 aradioactive site byencasing it inconcrete
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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Examples
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Another option is "entombment" of radioactive components in concrete for the long term.
tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A 2008
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When Mr. Bounderby in "Hard Times," for example, tells stories about his supposed childhood poverty, he brags that as a boy the only pictures he possessed were "of a man shaving himself in a boot on the blacking bottles"—a brisk little nod to Dickens's youthful entombment at Mr. Warren's factory in the Strand.
Snapshots of 'Boz' D.J. Taylor 2011
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She and her jackals, the Ten Who Were Taken, were freed from their entombment and now vie for the submission of the World once again.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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She and her jackals, the Ten Who Were Taken, were freed from their entombment and now vie for the submission of the World once again.
Glen Cook - Chronicles of The Black Company (Book Review) 2008
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She touched her candle to the one on my table, and a mellow light flickered over the massive stones of the wall, giving me a moment's feeling of entombment.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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It signified her participation in the entombment of
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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I just returned from D.C. feeling like David Blaine returning from his 58-hour entombment in a block of ice: I'm cold, I lost some friends, and I gained an impressive case of PTSD.
Obama's Inauguration Video, Liveblog, Photos, Information 2009
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Titian actually paints himself into his late religious paintings as a witness to Christ's entombment and as the suffering St. Jerome at the foot of a cross.
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I just returned from D.C. feeling like David Blaine returning from his 58-hour entombment in a block of ice: I'm cold, I lost some friends, and I gained an impressive case of PTSD.
Lee Camp: Hungover Blogging of the Inauguration, an Inaugural Ball, & the HuffPost Ball 2009
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America's debts are bigger than the entire GDP of the world, so unless the whole world decides to bail out America by gifting America 100 percent of their wages and profits for a year or more America can forget about ever digging out of its debt entombment.
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