Usually means: Enclosing something securely within something.
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  1. entombing: Merriam-Webster
  2. entombing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. entombing: Vocabulary.com
  4. entombing: Wordnik
  5. entombing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. entombing: Wiktionary
  7. Entombing, entombing: Dictionary.com
  8. Entombing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Entombing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. entombing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. entombing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. entombing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entombing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entombing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (entomb)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To deposit in a tomb.
▸ verb:  (figurative, transitive) To confine in restrictive surroundings.
▸ Also see entomb


Opposite:
unbury, exhume, unearth, uncover, disinter

Types:
inhumation, burial, cremation, sepulchre, more...

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Opposite:
unbury, exhume, unearth, uncover, disinter

Types:
inhumation, burial, cremation, sepulchre, more...




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