COFFINED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

coffined

verb

past tense of coffin

as in buried

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Navarro stepped to the spot and buried the penalty, keeping Austin winless on the road this year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
Two months after some of the most devastating airstrikes, there are still bodies buried under the rubble.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of buried

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Several individuals had been interred within burial cists made of volcanic tuff.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026
On June 26 of this year, Bloch, a Jew who identified as such only when dealing with anti-Semites, was interred in the Pantheon, the final resting place of so many of France’s great literary and cultural figures.

— Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

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Spontaneous applause erupted — and even some tears were shed — at the battered parking structure where Gil had been entombed since the two temblors struck within seconds of each other on June 24.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Hall today is entombed at the Signers’ Monument in Augusta alongside Walton.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of entombed

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The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The sign concealed a smaller building that was a holdout on the corner of West 34th Street and Broadway when Macy's was built in the early 1900s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of concealed

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Leandro Erlich, Bâtiment, 2004, a building facade laid flat beneath a mirror suspended at a 45-degree angle, 930 x 806 x 1445 cm.

— Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected the year that pipe was laid, and the Germans attacked the French in the World War I Battle of Verdun, with the death toll topping 700,000.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

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