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ˈsɛp(ə)lkə/
n.
a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
v.
chiefly literary lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.
Etymology
ME: via OFr. from L. sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.
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