Usually means: Bury within a tomb; encase.
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  1. entomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. entomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. entomb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. entomb: Vocabulary.com
  6. entomb: Wordnik
  7. entomb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. entomb: Wiktionary
  9. entomb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. entomb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. entomb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Entomb, entomb: Dictionary.com
  13. entomb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Entomb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. entomb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. entomb: Rhymezone
  17. Entomb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. entomb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. entomb: FreeDictionary.org
  20. entomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. entomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. entomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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(Note: See entombed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To deposit in a tomb.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To confine in restrictive surroundings.

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