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   Sepulchre

   /ˈsɛp(ə)lkə/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

   verb

   • 1. lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre: literary "tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries"
   • ▪ serve as a burial place for: literary "when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead"

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.

   Scrabble Points: 16

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