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Associations of "Grounded" (30 Words)

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.