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say it: en-TOOM
entomb is a verb meaning "place in a grave or tomb". It is pronounced /ɛnˈtum/ — en-TOOM. It carries one recorded sense.
place in a grave or tomb
“Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square”
“The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids”
“My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for entomb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.