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Gravestone :: Gravestone (n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone..

Ungrave :: Ungrave (v. t.) To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume.

Hecatomb :: Hecatomb (n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims..

Inurn :: Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb..

Disinter :: Disinter (v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..

Sepulchre :: Sepulchre (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb..

Tomb :: Tomb (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

Intombment :: Intombment (n.) See Entombment.

Burial :: Burial (n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..

Sepulchre :: Sepulchre (v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered..

Tombester :: Tombester (n.) A female dancer.

Monument :: Monument (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions..

Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.

Intomb :: Intomb (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

Hearse :: Hearse (v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..

Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

Grave :: Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction..

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