SEPULTURES Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

sepultures

noun

plural of sepulture

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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Noun

In July 2025, utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in Peru's capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs that were over 1,000 years old.

— CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
There has been prior research on the reuse of tombs in Thebes.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of tombs

Noun

Mass burials of unidentified bodies in Kathmandu In Kathmandu, police worked in heavy rain on Tuesday to bury dozens of bodies in multiple trenches next to a forested area.

— Shristi Kafle, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Preliminary explorations indicate these burials were looted in antiquity; passages linking them are thought to have been made by ancient robbers moving between the tombs.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of burials

Noun

The dead from Srebrenica were bulldozed into mass graves over four days in July 1995, some of them dug up and relocated to remote mountains so as to hide evidence of the killings.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
These included a child buried face down, a skeleton positioned as in a crucifixion, graves with stones placed around the skull as if to prevent biting or movement, as well as other graves with sickles and padlocks.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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