entombing
Placing in vault
Entombing is the act of placing in a tomb or sealing away as if in one.
The word carries connotations of permanence and finality: Workers spent months entombing the damaged reactor in concrete.
Figuratively, anything buried or enclosed beyond easy retrieval can be described as entombed: manuscripts entombing secrets for centuries, memories entombing grief.
Putting a body underground
- graveSerious and worrying
- coffinBurial container for remains
- casketBurial container
- sepulcherChamber for the dead
mausoleum · shroud · cemetery · graveyard · tombstone · burial · earth · pit
Preserving bodies after death
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- formaldehydeColorless pungent preservative gas
- desiccationComplete removal of moisture
- sarcophagusCarved stone burial container
canopic jars · natron · wrappings · pharaoh · pyramid · peat bog · permafrost · amber
Service honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- mourningPeriod following loss
- wakePath left in water
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
procession · committal · pallbearers · obsequies · requiem · memorial · vigil · last rites
interment
Putting a body underground
sepulcher · mausoleum · shroud · cemetery · graveyard · tombstone · burial · earth · pit · excavation
mummification
Preserving bodies after death
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- formaldehydeColorless pungent preservative gas
- desiccationComplete removal of moisture
sarcophagus · canopic jars · natron · wrappings · pharaoh · pyramid · peat bog · permafrost · amber · fossilization
funeral
Service honoring the dead
rites · procession · committal · pallbearers · obsequies · requiem · memorial · vigil · last rites · incense
entombingexhuming
Digging up buried remains
disinterring · unearthing · digging up · excavating · disinterment
entombingfreeing
Releasing from confinement
liberating · releasing · unsealing · opening · extracting
entombingrevealing
Making known what's hidden
exposing · uncovering · unveiling · displaying · bringing to light
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