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What is another word for Sepulchred?

Pronunciation: [sˈɛpʌlkrd] (IPA)

There are various synonyms for the word "sepulchred" which refers to the burial or interment of the dead. Some of the common synonyms of this word are entombed, buried, interred, laid to rest, consigned to the grave, and laid in a tomb. These words depict the act of placing a deceased body in a final resting place. Other synonyms include inhumed, deposited, planted, ensepulchered, and entombed. Each of these synonyms has a slightly different connotation and usage, but they all are used in reference to the solemn act of burial and the reverent treatment of the deceased.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Sepulchred

The incident just passed, the woman's hand on mine, the woman's words, though from her they were nothing to me, had yet touched and unlocked those impulses which, until now, had been so sternly repressed, barred down, Sepulchred and sealed.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
It was as I had supposed: the mass of the valley in which the schooner had been Sepulchred for eight-and-forty years had come away from the main, and lay floating within a cable's length of the coast.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
In due time the ring of metal and Sepulchred voices rumbled in the ground beneath the besieged.
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill

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