COFFINED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

coffined

verb

past tense of coffin

as in buried

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Four-month-old Maytie Raker was buried in 1906 without a grave marker.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
More than 600 people have been killed, homes buried to the ground and entire villages washed away in the aftermath.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of buried

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By comparison, according to the study, the burial robes of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Habsburg, interred around the same time in Kraków in southern Poland, contain not a single pure gold thread.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of interred

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Country music icon Dolly Parton will be entombed next to her husband Carl Thomas Dean in Tennessee.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
The consensus seems to be that these bizarre objects, which were first discovered in 2022, are growing supermassive black holes entombed within huge clouds of gas that have spectrums similar to cool, red stars, such as red giants.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of entombed

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Under-eye shadows, bags and lower-lid definition get played up instead of concealed.

— Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
States alleged that Meta’s internal research documented links between Instagram use and harms including depression, anxiety and body-image concerns among young people, while the company publicly minimized or concealed those risks.

— Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of concealed

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Each of these decisions laid the groundwork for the war on Iran today, one that started without a clear strategy on the arrogant expectation of a quick victory.

— Alexander Langlois, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
The Lindsay Clancy case has laid bare a double standard in how mothers who kill their children are treated compared to fathers.

— Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

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