sepulchral
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(a) of or relating to a sepulchre
- sepulchral inscriptions
- sepulchral monuments in churches
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(s) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
- a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
- ghastly shrieks
- the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
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(s) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
- funereal gloom
- hollow sepulchral tones