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Associations of "Grounded" (30 Words)
basilar | Of or situated at the base of something, especially of the skull, or of the organ of Corti in the ear. The basilar membrane of the cochlea. |
burial | A ceremony at which someone’s body is buried; a funeral. His remains were shipped home for burial. |
bury | Embed deeply. He ran through to bury a right foot shot inside the near post. |
casket | Enclose in a casket. A small brass casket containing four black opals. |
cemetery | A large burial ground, especially one not in a churchyard. A military cemetery. |
coffin | Place into a coffin. The young man was coffined decently. |
cornerstone | An important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. A national minimum wage remained the cornerstone of policy. |
crypt | A small tubular gland, pit, or recess. |
entomb | Place (a dead body) in a tomb. The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids. |
epigraph | A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing. |
epitaph | An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there. The story makes a sorry epitaph to a great career. |
foundation | An institution supported by an endowment. The foundation of a civil service college. |
grave | Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. The coffin was lowered into the grave. |
gravestone | An inscribed headstone marking a grave. |
inhume | Place in a grave or tomb. No hand his bones shall gather or inhume. |
inter | Place in a grave or tomb. He was interred with the military honours due to him. |
interment | The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave. The day of interment. |
mausoleum | A stately or impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs. A cultural mausoleum such as the Tate. |
mortician | One whose business is the management of funerals. |
mummification | (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color. Bureaucratic mummification in red tape. |
necropolis | A tract of land used for burials. |
pharaoh | A ruler in ancient Egypt. The time of the pharaohs. |
plaque | A small, distinct, typically raised patch or region on or within the body resulting from local damage or deposition of material, such as a fatty deposit on an artery wall in atherosclerosis or a site of localized damage of brain tissue in Alzheimer’s disease. Plaque around gum margins can lead to gingivitis. |
quietus | Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb. |
sarcophagus | A stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. |
sepulcher | A chamber that is used as a grave. |
slide | A transparency mounted in a frame viewed with a slide projector. His slide didn t stop until the bottom of the hill. |
slither | A slithering movement. A snake like slither across the grass. |
tomb | A place for the burial of a corpse especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone. The house was as quiet as a tomb. |
tombstone | Jump into the sea from a cliff or other high point. Thrill seeking lads tombstoned off the rocks. |