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    [Noun]  | "sep*ul*chre" | \ ˈse-pəl-kər \


    1: a place of burial : tomb

    2: a receptacle for religious relics especially in an altar


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English sepulcre, from Anglo-French, from Latin sepulcrum, sepulchrum, from sepelire to bury; akin to Greek hepein to care for, Sanskrit saparyati he honors;

    [Verb]  | "sepulchre" 


    1: to place in or as if in a sepulchre : bury

    2: to serve as a sepulchre for


    Origin: 1591 ;

    [Noun]  | "sepulchre" 


    1: a final resting place for a dead person;


      * e.g., " ... a poem describing the forgotten sepulcher of a valiant knight of the Middle Ages "



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     [ "sepulchre" ]

    1: burial chamber: a chamber that is used as a grave

      * e.g.,  ... King Tut's sepulchre was huuuuuge. 

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