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tomb

About 7.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
  2. noun A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
  3. noun One who keeps secrets.
  4. noun Death (literary)
    I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.
  5. verb To bury.

Similar words

grave headstone gravestone mausoleum tombstone cemetery gravesite graveyard sepulcher burial

Often followed by

of in and is was at to with for

Word family

tombed tombing tombless tombs

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