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How to pronounce entombment in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture
Type of funeral, obsequy
Derivation entomb

Examples of entombment

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Snorkels to the surface allowed her to breathe during the 80-hour entombment.
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Entombment in Sewickley Cemetery will take place immediately following the funeral.
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Entombment with full military honors will be in Twin Valley Memorial Park.
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Gopher tortoise's spared entombment in Florida their survival is uncertain.
From the orlandosentinel.com
With lamentations she brings you myrrh in anticipation of your entombment.
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Christ ascends toward heaven by vignettes-from betrayal, to entombment.
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Live entombment holds a particular terror for all human beings, and miners are no exception.
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He decided to use the Schlosskirche St. Michael as the entombment site for his family line.
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Entombment will be in Sumner Memorial Gardens Mausoleum with grandsons serving as pallbearers.
From the tennessean.com
More examples
  • Burial: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
  • Burial (as in berry, or), also called interment and inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.
  • The Entombment of Christ, or just Entombment, is the term in art history for the subject of Jesus being placed in his tomb. ...
  • The Deposition from the Cross is an altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo, completed in 1528. It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece. ...
  • Placement of the body in a casket above ground in a mausoleum.
  • The placing of a dead human body remains in a crypt or mausoleum.
  • Burial in a mausoleum.
  • Interment in a crypt. Health & Safety Code 711.001(12).
  • Burial in a crypt, vault, or sarcophagus.