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How to pronounce crypt in English?

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Type Words
Type of burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture

Examples of crypt

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To enter the chapel or view the Kalakaua crypt, ask the curator, William Maioho.
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On Wednesday, that crypt was lined with blue and yellow daisies and delphiniums.
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A visit to the church's crypt where Black Sara resides is essential for Gypsies.
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He died there on 25 July 1834 and is buried in the crypt of St Michael's Church.
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The statue was later moved to the crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster.
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Heartbroken, Romeo buys poison from an apothecary and goes to the Capulet crypt.
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Washington would no longer be the graveyard of progress, the crypt of consensus.
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Visitors often pull the bench over to Courson's crypt so they can sit near her.
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Playboy's Hugh Hefner bought the crypt next to the actress in 1992 for $75,000.
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More examples
  • A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
  • A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.
  • Crypts are anatomical structures that are narrow but deep invaginations into a larger structure.
  • In Unix computing, crypt is the name of both a utility program and a C programming function. Though both are used for encrypting data, they are otherwise essentially unrelated. ...
  • The Crypt is the album by the American synthpop band Red Flag. It was released in 2000 by their own label, Plan B Records.
  • The Crypt is an independent 2009 horror movie written and directed by Craig McMahon. The film depicts a group of thieves who break into an underground catacomb to steal jewels and then encounter undead beings intent on killing them.
  • The Crypt is the name of two separate HUSS Top Spins operating at Kings Island and Kings Dominion theme parks. ...
  • (Crypts) In anatomy, a crypt is variously a blind alley, a tube with no exit, a depression, or a pit -- in an otherwise fairly flat surface. The words crypt and cryptic come from the Greek "kryptos" meaning hidden or concealed.
  • An underground chamber for relics or tombs.