| Main Entry: | tomb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
Synonyms: |
box, burial, burial chamber, catacomb, coffin, crypt, grave, mausoleum, monument, pit, sepulcher, trough, vault |
| 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: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay to rest after death |
Synonyms: |
consign to grave, cover up, deposit, embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hold last rites for, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inter, inurn, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away, put six feet under, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
Antonyms: |
dig out, disinter, uncover |
| 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, undercroft, vault |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
Antonyms: |
being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | entomb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bury |
Synonyms: |
embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, hold last rites for, hold services for, inhume, inter, inurn, lay to rest, put six feet under, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb |
| Main Entry: | grave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
Synonyms: |
catacomb, crypt, final resting place, last home, mausoleum, mound, permanent address, place of interment, resting place, sepulcher, shrine, six feet under, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | inter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bury |
Synonyms: |
cover up, entomb, inhume, inurn, lay to rest, plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb |
Antonyms: |
dig up, exhume |