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Entombment

//ɪnˈtuːm.mənt// noun

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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

Etymology

From entomb + -ment.

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