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sepulchrally
adverb
uk /səˈpʌl.krəl.i/ us /səˈpʌl.krəl.i/
in a way that relates to or suggests death or places where people are buried :
It was sepulchrally dark in the chamber and we could not see a thing until Max found the light switch.
I was impressed by the station's sepulchrally massive booking hall.
A stench emanated sepulchrally from the sewer.
The nurse kept her voice sepulchrally low as she informed us of what was happening in the operating theatre.
We could only make out the shadows of certain figures in the sepulchrally lit room.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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antemortem
bereave
bite
bleed out
coroner
death toll
ghost
have one foot in the graveidiom
macabre
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posthumously
raise
raise someone from the deadidiom
remains
roadkill
self-extinction
snuff
strike someone down
toll
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