sepulchre
/ˈsɛpəlkɚ/ verb C2- To place in a sepulchre.
He/she/it sepulchres · Past sepulchred · Past participle sepulchred · -ing form sepulchring
Verb forms
- Base form
- sepulchre
- He/she/it
- sepulchres
- Past
- sepulchred
- Past participle
- sepulchred
- -ing form
- sepulchring
From the library
Was it a chance that the wood had slipped, and that the stone had shut Brunton into what had become his sepulchre?
He thought himself in a sepulchre, into which a ray of sunlight in pity scarcely penetrated.
He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.
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