entombed
past simple and past participle ofentomb
| 单词 | entombed |
| 释义 | entombed past simple and past participle ofentomb entomb verb[Toften passive] formaluk/ɪnˈtuːm/us/ɪnˈtuːm/toburysomeone or something: Thenuclearwastehas been entombedinconcretedeepunder theground. Synonyms bury(COVER WITH EARTH, ETC.) interformal Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Burying, cremating and preserving bodies Examplesofentombedentombed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The human person, on this reading, is an ' ensouled body ' to be resurrected, rather than an immortal and transcendent soulentombedin a material body. From theCambridge English Corpus One of these factors is the probability of release ofentombedorganisms from the surviving projectile fragments. From theCambridge English Corpus The representation of what has beenentombedin the offstage as the unconscious of the stage is the presence of the uncanny theatricality. From theCambridge English Corpus This impeded the identification in situ of the total number of individuals that had beenentombedduring the last cremation. From theCambridge English Corpus Even in the case of seeds or spores frozen, orentombed, for centuries, some minimal metabolic activity may have been going on. From theCambridge English Corpus With the presence of cracking within the surviving fragments the possibility of any organic compoundsentombedwithin the pre-impact meteoroid escaping and mixing with the surrounding environment are increased. From theCambridge English Corpus To start with, it is not even clear exactly what sort of tree produced the fluid resins that subsequently hardened about theirentombedcaptives to form the amber. From theCambridge English Corpus In its magnificent library there areentombedunprinted manuscripts of the most valuable and important kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thirteen are stillentombed, and every effort to find them has so far failed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The consequence would be that hundreds of men would beentombedwithout any possibility of being saved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They areentombedin the urns and sepulchres of mortality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The men heard it coming but had not time to get to the top or bottom gateway, and were temporarilyentombed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, the concrete casing of theentombedreactor is unsafe and unstable. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English I stood with a group of people a few months ago in the yard of a great colliery, where over eighty men wereentombedand ultimately lost their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I was certain that he had painted himself into a corner, and that he would soon find himself not so much painted into that corner asentombedin it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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