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tomb

verb

  1. to place in a tomb
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noun

  1. burial place
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /tuːm/ / /tum/ / /ʈumb/

name

Etymology: Perhaps a variant spelling of Tom, with excrescent -b.

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

  1. 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. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

    As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

  3. One who keeps secrets.

    I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.

  4. Death (literary)

    I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

  1. To bury.