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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
2. 2
   the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave wordnet
3. 3
   The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete

Synonyms

All synonyms

burialburialfuneralinhumationintermentsepulture

Etymology

From entomb + -ment.

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