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sepulchral

/suh-puhl-kruhl/US // səˈpʌl krəl //UK // (sɪˈpʌlkrəl) //

墓穴,坟墓,墓地,墓葬

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
    • : of or relating to burial.
    • : proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.
    • : hollow and deep: sepulchral tones.

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Examples

  • Wilde called on a sepulchral Jefferson Davis at his Mississippi Plantation.

  • One person described the atmosphere inside the network as “sepulchral.”

  • She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before, quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.

  • It was, indeed, a strange scene which was thus witnessed in these sepulchral caverns.

  • A valuable collection of sepulchral remains has been made and placed in the local museum.

  • It consists of a series of large and gloomy caverns utterly unlike the sepulchral crypts below.

  • In the Cloister garden of the Cathedral are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman warrior.