Crypt

Tom's body lies in the crypt below.

The royal crypt was pilfered by grave robbers long ago.

The shield you're looking for is in the crypt.

Donald looked like he crawled out of a crypt.

You should go back to the crypt.

Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher

She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.

On its arrival at Bank, incidentally, the City & South London's directors had threatened to demolish the church of St Mary Woolnoth, but after a public outcry the company built its station in the crypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have a crypt. Or you could say that its crypt is Bank station.

Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa

Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.