Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to entomb
Participle: entombed
Gerund: entombing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | entomb |
| you | entomb |
| he;she;it | entombs |
| we | entomb |
| you | entomb |
| they | entomb |
Perfect
| I | have entombed |
| you | have entombed |
| he;she;it | has entombed |
| we | have entombed |
| you | have entombed |
| they | have entombed |
Past
| I | entombed |
| you | entombed |
| he;she;it | entombed |
| we | entombed |
| you | entombed |
| they | entombed |
Pluperfect
| I | had entombed |
| you | had entombed |
| he;she;it | had entombed |
| we | had entombed |
| you | had entombed |
| they | had entombed |
Future
| I | will entomb |
| you | will entomb |
| he;she;it | will entomb |
| we | will entomb |
| you | will entomb |
| they | will entomb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have entombed |
| you | will have entombed |
| he;she;it | will have entombed |
| we | will have entombed |
| you | will have entombed |
| they | will have entombed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | entomb |
| you | entomb |
| he;she;it | entomb |
| we | entomb |
| you | entomb |
| they | entomb |
Perfect
| I | have entombed |
| you | have entombed |
| he;she;it | have entombed |
| we | have entombed |
| you | have entombed |
| they | have entombed |
Imperfect
| I | entombed |
| you | entombed |
| he;she;it | entombed |
| we | entombed |
| you | entombed |
| they | entombed |
Pluperfect
| I | had entombed |
| you | had entombed |
| he;she;it | had entombed |
| we | had entombed |
| you | had entombed |
| they | had entombed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would entomb |
| you | would entomb |
| he;she;it | would entomb |
| we | would entomb |
| you | would entomb |
| they | would entomb |
Perfect
| I | would have entombed |
| you | would have entombed |
| he;she;it | would have entombed |
| we | would have entombed |
| you | would have entombed |
| they | would have entombed |
Imperative
| you | entomb |
| we | Let's entomb |
| you | entomb |
Verbs conjugated like 'entomb'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'entomb'
enwomb,
intomb,
untomb,
endome,
enjamb,
entame,
entoil,
inwomb,
tomb,
uncomb,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French entomber (“deposit in a tomb”). Equivalent to en- + tomb.
Sample Sentences
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At Cihhu (Cihu), near the town of Dasi (Daxi), 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is “temporary,” as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China. [2007, Phil Macdonald, Taiwan, 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 122, column 1:]
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You mocking Birds (quoth ſhe) your tunes intombe / VVithin your hollovv ſvvelling feathered breaſts, / […] / Raliſh your nimble notes to pleaſing eares, / Diſtres likes dũps vvhẽ [dumps when] time is kept vvith teares. [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature H3, verso:]
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[A]fter the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain. [2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:]