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crypt
noun
    1. An underground chamber or vault, especially one beneath a church, often used for burials.
      Thesaurus: tomb, vault, catacomb, mausoleum.
Etymology: 18c in this sense; 15c in obsolete sense ‘grotto': from Latin crypta, ultimately from Greek kryptein to hide.



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