: a box or chest for burying a corpse compare casket
coffined; coffining; coffins
: to enclose in or as if in a coffin
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Noun
coffins are said to be the preferred sleeping places of vampires
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Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
But the design appealed to Germans and others simply because the discovery of Ramesses II’s mummy and coffin in 1881 and Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 had sparked a global craze for anything with an Egyptian motif.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
The 1918 flu epidemic that swept the globe exhausted hospital facilities and, reportedly, the base ran out of coffins due to so many deaths.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2025
His death sparked an outpouring of grief and anger from the highest levels of government, including Vance, who accompanied his coffin as Air Force Two transported his body home to Arizona, where Kirk lived with his wife and two children.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The waterless Wadi Hammamat between the Nile and the Red Sea was quarried for the siltstone formed from ancient river sediment that had hardened over millions of years to provide a limitless supply of stone coffins (sarcophagi).
—Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
But the design appealed to Germans and others simply because the discovery of Ramesses II’s mummy and coffin in 1881 and Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 had sparked a global craze for anything with an Egyptian motif.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
The 1918 flu epidemic that swept the globe exhausted hospital facilities and, reportedly, the base ran out of coffins due to so many deaths.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2025
His death sparked an outpouring of grief and anger from the highest levels of government, including Vance, who accompanied his coffin as Air Force Two transported his body home to Arizona, where Kirk lived with his wife and two children.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffin. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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