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sepulchral
adjective
Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
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səˈpʌlkɹəl
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adjective
Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
“Funereal gloom”
adjective
Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
“A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones”
adjective
Of or relating to a sepulchre
“Sepulchral inscriptions”
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Funereal gloom
Hollow sepulchral tones
A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
Ghastly shrieks
The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
Sepulchral inscriptions
Sepulchral monuments in churches
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