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as in tombs
a final resting place for a dead person
opened the sepulture and examined the mummy
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as in burials
the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place
the final sepulture of the body had to wait until the ground thawed
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sepultures
Noun
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025 -
Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The burials at Skhul also call for a reevaluation of the development of culture in early humans, Hershkovitz said.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025
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Early in the Gaza genocide, there were so many people killed that individual burials were no longer possible, and traditional burial cloths had run out.—
Philip Metres
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tyler is visiting the graves of his parents when Capri interrupts.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.—
Seema Jilani
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Sepultures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepultures. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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