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   tomb

   /tuːm/

   noun

   • 1. a large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.
   • ▪ an enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock.
   • ▪ a monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place.
   • ▪ used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure: "the house was as quiet as a tomb"
   • ▪ death: "none escape the tomb"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French tombe, from late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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