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The definition of a sepulcher is a small room, usually made of stone, where a dead person is buried.

(noun)

A small stone room at a cemetery that is made of rock or stone in which a king is buried is an example of a sepulcher.

Sepulcher is to serve as a place to lay or bury something.

(verb)

When a ship sinks and people are dead under the water, this is an example of when the ocean sepulchers.
When old maps are set aside in an attic, this is an example of when the maps are sepulchered in the attic.

See sepulcher in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a vault for burial; grave; tomb
R.C.Ch. a small, sealed cavity, holding martyrs' relics, in a flat rectangular or square stone forming the top or part of the top of an altar

Origin: ME < OFr sepulcre < L sepulcrum < sepelire, to bury < IE *sepel-, veneration < base *sep-, to honor > Sans sápati, (he) cultivates, cherishes

transitive verb

to place in a sepulcher; bury

See sepulcher in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun