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tomb - 16 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | tomb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | box, burial, catacomb, coffin, crypt, grave, mausoleum, monument, pit, sepulcher, trough, vault, burial chamber |
| Main Entry: | boneyard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
| Synonyms: | God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, cemetery, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | cemetery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
| Synonyms: | God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | crypt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | catacomb, cave, cavern, cell, chamber, compartment, grave, grotto, mausoleum, room, sepulcher, tomb, vault, undercroft |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depository |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storage place |
| Synonyms: | archive, arsenal, bank, bunker, cache, collection, depot, gallery, magazine, museum, repertory, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, store, storehouse, tomb, vault, warehouse |
| Notes: | depository and repository are basically synonymous, but there are special senses like a bank's (night) depository and a sepulchre as a repository |
| Main Entry: | entomb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bury |
| Synonyms: | embalm, enshrine, inter, lay to rest*, sepulcher, tomb, ensepulcher, hold last rites for, hold services for, inhume, inurn, put six feet under, sepulture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
| Synonyms: | catacomb, crypt, mausoleum, mound, sepulcher, shrine, six feet under*, tomb, vault, final resting place, last home, permanent address, place of interment, resting place |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bury |
| Synonyms: | entomb, lay to rest, plant, put away, sepulcher, tomb, cover up, inhume, inurn, sepulture |
| Antonyms: | exhume, dig up |
| Main Entry: | monument |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | memorial, remembrance |
| Synonyms: | column, commemoration, headstone, ledger, magnum opus, marker, masterpiece, mausoleum, memento, monolith, obelisk, pile, pillar, record, reminder, shrine, slab, statue, stone, tablet, testament, token, tomb, tombstone, tower, tribute, witness, cairn, cenotaph, erection, footstone, gravestone, stele |
| Main Entry: | necropolis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cemetery |
| Synonyms: | God's acre, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, funerary grounds, graveyard, potter's field, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole, cavity |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, crater, dent, depression, dimple, excavation, grave, gulf, hell, hollow, indentation, mine, pockmark, pothole, puncture, shaft, tomb, trench, well, perforation |
| Antonyms: | mountain |
| Main Entry: | pyramid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | monument |
| Synonyms: | edifice, memorial, monolith, obelisk, shrine, tomb, tribute, cairn, cenotaph, mastaba |
| Main Entry: | vault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depository |
| Synonyms: | basement, box, can, catacomb, cavern, cellar, crib*, crypt, dungeon, grave, mausoleum, pit, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, sepulcher, tomb, strong room |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay to rest after death |
| Synonyms: | deposit, embalm, enshrine, entomb, inter, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away*, sepulcher, tomb, consign to grave, cover up, ensepulcher, hold last rites for, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inurn, put six feet under, sepulture |
| Antonyms: | disinter, uncover, dig out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | put away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, bury, cool*, cut off, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in*, execute, finish, inter, knock off*, liquidate, murder, plant, put down*, slay, tomb, dust off*, put out of its misery, put to sleep |
| Antonyms: | give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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