ENTOMB

bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

(verb) place in a grave or tomb; “Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square”; “The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids”; “My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

entomb (third-person singular simple present entombs, present participle entombing, simple past and past participle entombed)

(transitive) To deposit in a tomb.

(figurative, transitive) To confine in restrictive surroundings.

Source: Wiktionary


En*tomb", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entombed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entombing.] Etym: [Pref. en- + tomb: cf. OF. entomber.]

Definition: To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SOUARI

(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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