a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried 坟墓,冢
verb
[with obj.](chiefly poetic/literary)lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre (主诗/文)埋葬;掩埋 tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries. 一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。 ■serve as a burial place for 为…作墓地 when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead. 当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。
语源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'