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Noun: entombment  en'toom-munt
  1. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
    "The pharaoh's entombment was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies";
    - burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture [archaic]

Derived forms: entombments

Type of: funeral, obsequy

Encyclopedia: Entombment