coffined

past tense of coffin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffined
Verb
  • Growing up during the Lebanese Civil War, famed architect and designer Aline Asmar d’Amman was often cozied in her room, her nose buried in a book to dampen the noise from the bombs outside.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Gomez and Morticia buried him, but kept his disembodied hand, which eventually became Thing (Victor Dorobantu).
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dignitaries and longtime residents gathered under gray skies at the memorial to Katrina’s victims in a New Orleans cemetery where dozens who perished in the storm but were never identified or claimed are interred.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Armstrong is interred at Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The offcuts were entombed, encased in this diamond and preserved.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Photographs—memories entombed and then sent flying around the web—saturate our digital lives.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Rather than sharing information about the change with the FAA, Boeing concealed the information and deceived the FAA about the part.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The elaborate deception also was concealed by blaming the chaos of the pandemic as well as the Hollywood labor strikes, which roiled real production cycles during this period.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ricky Martin laid it all on the stage during his acceptance speech at the 2025 MTV VMAs.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Soon after, state officials took over most of the city's schools, and the school board laid everyone off.
    Aubri Juhasz, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Coffined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffined. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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