(in sth) (formal)
1 to bury or completely cover sb/sth so that they cannot get out, be seen, etc:
As many as 1000 people were dead, entombed in collapsed buildings.
2 to put a dead body in a TOMB:
pharaohs entombed in the pyramids of Egypt
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