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sep·ul·cher

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NOUN:

A burial vault.
A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
sep·ul·chered, sep·ul·cher·ing, sep·ul·chers

To place into a sepulcher; inter.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English sepulcre, from Old French, from Latin sepulcrum, sepulchrum, from sepultus, past participle of sepelre, to bury the dead

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