tomb
tomb is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. "In tomb of marble stones." Chaucer.
- 2.A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak. Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (T. perforatus).
- 3.To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb. I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. Chapman.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- able
- amnesia
- amnesty
- and
- attention
- away
- back
- behind
- cast
- cause
- come
- consign
- decay
- deliberate
- die
- discharge
- ear
- efface
- escape
- fade
- fail
- failing
- failure
- fall
- forget
- forgetful
- forgetfulness
- forgive
- from
- general
- have
- head
- insensibility
- into
- lapse
- let
- lethe
- loose
- lose
- memory
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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