tomb

noun

A grave or other place of burial.

noun

A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.

noun

A monument commemorating the dead.

To bury; inter; intomb.

noun

An excavation in earth or rock, intended to receive the dead body of a human being; a grave; also, a chamber or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, or wholly above ground, for the reception of the dead, whether plain, or decorated by means of architecture, sculpture, etc.; a mausoleum; a sarcophagus. See also cuts under catacomb, Lycian, and altar-tomb.

noun

A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead; any sepulchral structure; a cenotaph.

noun

Same as altar-cavity.

noun

Figuratively, the end of earthly life; death.

transitive verb

To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

noun

A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.