coffined

past tense of coffin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffined
Verb
  • As the lore goes, King’s daughter’s cat was struck by a truck and buried on a hill behind the house, inspiring the plot for his 1983 novel Pet Sematary.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Then, a flash flood buried the bodies in sediment.
    Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Odd Fellows Cemetery, where Sammy is interred, is the last such cemetery in Sacramento.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • She was later interred at Fairview Cemetery.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Although the city demolished the long-vacant behemoth from its modest skyline about nine months ago, its remains lie entombed where the building once stood, and temporarily block the beginning of a new chapter of Marysville history.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Acutis was entombed in Assisi, where millions flocked to see him through glass, dressed in jeans, Nike sneakers and a sweatshirt.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Though the structures appear to only be heads, many of them have full bodies that have been concealed by sediment over the centuries.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The train containing the four ride vehicles, including the Dodge Charger, will be concealed during this initial test phase — though a version of the Charger chassis was revealed to media this summer.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched in response to the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas’s attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to swaths of territory.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The King, 76, met with veterans of the armed forces and laid a bouquet at the base of the memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Coffined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffined. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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