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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for entomb

to place (a corpse) in or as if in a grave

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Synonyms for entomb

place in a grave or tomb

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He said: "If the Soviet Union decides to launch its nuclear missiles on this part of the country, two part-time members of the Royal Observer Corps will entomb themselves in these cold dank chambers and, breathing filtered air, they will use their measuring equipment to relay information to the operations room at regional group headquarters at Durham on the size of the blast, the direction of the atomic cloud and the amount of radiation on the surface."
Workers for Honeywell spent weeks at the site late last year conducting trial runs of different equipment and varying methods to determine the best way to entomb coal tar, arsenic and other contaminants.
ENTOMBED: Artist's impression of how the woman may have looked
It wants to entomb the toxic waste and defunct research reactor in Pinawa, about 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
Plans to entomb the unidentified remains of victims of the 9/11 attacks at the heart of the World Trade Centre memorial have been ditched.
Many DOE scientists think Yucca is the safest place to store nuclear waste: The terrain is forged of dry volcanic rock rugged enough to entomb nuclear waste for 10,000 years.
But this event got me to wondering: Why entomb bishops in such ornate mausoleums anyway?
Bury some young artists in praise, and it might entomb them at their current level.
The commission explains that licensees may choose from three alternative decommissioning strategies: DECON, SAFSTOR, or ENTOMB.
A WOMAN who repeatedly gave birth, only to stuff her infants into a freezer or entomb them in cement-filled buckets, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Critics contend that because salt beds so efficiently entomb the waste, it would be difficult to impossible to retrieve the debris in the future, should the United States want to use it for reprocessing.
Lead author Dr Randall Perry, of Imperial College, London, said: "If silica exists in varnish-like coatings in Martian deserts or caves, then it may entomb ancient microbes."
Their models in part must also lie in text, in language--which, however, they index only to entomb behind their synecdochic skins.
Like concrete cascading down a cement truck chute, lahars could even entomb the streets of Orting.
Now archaeologists working on the site wonder what happened to entomb this port 2 millennia ago.