sepulcher

/ˈsɛpəlkər/
verb
  1. To bury or entomb someone or something.
    • They sepulchered the fallen soldiers in a mass grave on the battlefield.
    • The ancient ritual sepulchered the pharaoh with his treasures.
    • Time had sepulchered the old city beneath layers of earth and rubble.
  2. To hide or conceal something completely, as if burying it.
    • The scandal was sepulchered by the company's lawyers in sealed files.
    • He sepulchered his grief deep inside, never speaking of it again.
    • The thick fog sepulchered the entire valley from view.
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noun
  1. A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
    • Archaeologists discovered a sealed sepulcher containing several sarcophagi.
    • The ancient king was laid to rest in a stone sepulcher carved into the hillside.
    • Visitors to the old church can see the marble sepulcher of a medieval knight.
  2. A place that feels like a tomb; a dark, silent, or gloomy place.
    • Her room had become a sepulcher of old memories, dusty and untouched.
    • The abandoned factory stood like a sepulcher in the fog, empty and cold.
    • The cave was a natural sepulcher, silent except for the dripping of water.
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