sepulcher
/ˈsɛpəlkər/
verb
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.