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Noun: tomb  toom
  1. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
    "he put flowers on his mother's tomb";
    - grave
Verb: tomb  toom
  1. Place in a grave or tomb
    "The pharaoh was tombed with great ceremony and surrounded by precious artifacts";
    - bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest, ensepulchre [Brit, Cdn, literary], ensepulcher [US, literary]

Sounds like: toom

Derived forms: tombing, tombs, tombed

Type of: lay, place, put down, repose, spot, topographic point

Encyclopedia: Tomb, Iran