sepulchre, American also sepulcher phoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticphonetic noun [C] OLD USE 

1. a stone structure where someone is buried 

sepulchral phoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticphonetic adjective LITERARY 

2. Sepulchral means suggesting death or places where the dead are buried. 

   The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
    Not a whisper broke the sepulchral silence.
    "There are punishments worse than death," he said, in his hollow, sepulchral voice.

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