sepulchre
/ˈsɛpəlkər/
verb
- To bury or entomb someone in a sepulchre.
- In ancient times, priests would sepulchre the dead with great ceremony.
- They decided to sepulchre the remains in a simple stone chamber.
- The family chose to sepulchre their ancestors in the family vault.
- To hide or conceal something as if in a tomb.
- He sepulchred his painful memories deep in his mind.
- The old letters were sepulchred in a locked drawer for decades.
- The treasure was sepulchred beneath the floorboards, forgotten by time.
noun
- A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
- The ancient king was laid to rest in a stone sepulchre carved into the hillside.
- Tourists visited the old church to see the marble sepulchre of the medieval knight.
- Archaeologists discovered a hidden sepulchre beneath the ruins of the temple.
- A place that feels like a tomb; a dark, quiet, or gloomy space.
- The abandoned library felt like a sepulchre, silent and cold.
- After the power went out, the basement became a dark sepulchre.
- The empty hall had a sepulchre-like stillness that made everyone whisper.