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单词 entomb
释义
entomb
verb[Toften passive]
formal
uk
/ɪnˈtuːm/us
/ɪnˈtuːm/
toburysomeone or something:
埋葬；掩埋
Thenuclearwastehas been entombedinconcretedeepunder theground.核废料被掩埋在离地面数米以下的混凝土里。
Synonyms
bury(COVER WITH EARTH, ETC.)
interformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
  • beleaguer
  • beleaguered
  • beset
  • border
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • dunk
  • fencesomethingin
  • fencesomethingoff
  • flooding
  • gather
  • gift wrap
  • gift-wrapped
  • siege
  • steep
  • steepsomething/someoneinsomething
  • submersion
  • surround
  • swaddle
  • swallow
  • swamp
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Burying, cremating and preserving bodies
(Definition ofentombfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofentomb

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The human person, on this reading, is an ' ensouled body ' to be resurrected, rather than an immortal and transcendent soul entombed in a material body.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The representation of what has been entombed in the offstage as the unconscious of the stage is the presence of the uncanny theatricality.
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This impeded the identification in situ of the total number of individuals that had been entombed during the last cremation.
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Interestingly, it is around the issue of entombing as a form of respect for important individuals associated with the respective struggles.
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With the presence of cracking within the surviving fragments the possibility of any organic compounds entombed within the pre-impact meteoroid escaping and mixing with the surrounding environment are increased.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The houses surrounding them are of light construction, debris would pile right the way round the shelters and probablyentombthe people inside.
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In its magnificent library there are entombed unprinted manuscripts of the most valuable and important kind.
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Thirteen are still entombed, and every effort to find them has so far failed.
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The consequence would be that hundreds of men would be entombed without any possibility of being saved.
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While we do not underestimate the seriousness of our problems, there is no reason why we shouldentombourselves in despair.
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They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality.
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The men heard it coming but had not time to get to the top or bottom gateway, and were temporarily entombed.
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Secondly, the concrete casing of the entombed reactor is unsafe and unstable.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
While this is no time for complacency, still less is it a time toentombourselves in despair.
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I stood with a group of people a few months ago in the yard of a great colliery, where over eighty men were entombed and ultimately lost their lives.
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