as in tombs
an underground burial chamber
the old church's crypt is the final resting place for the president and his beloved wife
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Recent Examples of crypts
The film includes scenes shot in memorial sites and underground crypts, still home to victims’ remains, spaces that pushed Rolland to navigate the line between the character and herself as a Rwandan woman.
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Essie Assibu, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crypts
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Between 2022 and 2024, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a series of ancient tombs in the Jiali Village of Zi’an.—
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On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.—
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But the producer dug deep into his vaults.—
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It will be set inside the bomb-proof Vault-Tec vaults seen in the series.—
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His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.—
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For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.—
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For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.—
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Meanwhile, at Mount Moriah, the graves Gerlach allegedly prayed on are old, ornate mausoleums and large crypt-like vaults, many from the 1800s.—
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“Crypts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypts. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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