sepulchers in English

noun

1

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

And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.

synonyms: tomb, vault, burial chamber, mausoleum, crypt, undercroft, catacomb, grave

verb

1

lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher.

tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries

noun

• tomb, vault, burial chamber, mausoleum, crypt, undercroft, catacomb, grave
• sepulture, burial chamber

Use "sepulchers" in a sentence

1. Sepulchers face the sea, as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.

2. “Masking players, painted sepulchers and double dealing Ambidexters” on duty: anti-theatricalist tracts on audience involvement and the transformative power …

3. “For more than a century the ghosts of a vanished nation have Ambuscaded in the vast solitudes of the continent, and the forest-covered mounds have been usually regarded as the mysterious sepulchers of its kings and nobles