as in caskets
a boxlike container for holding a dead body
coffins are said to be the preferred sleeping places of vampires
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Recent Examples of coffins
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Too often, the radioactive material landed in crematoriums and coffins.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
Your funeral provider is required to show you a list of descriptions and prices, just like with coffins.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Their coffins are carried by military brigades and saluted by soldiers as family members and friends weep.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Too often, the radioactive material landed in crematoriums and coffins.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
Your funeral provider is required to show you a list of descriptions and prices, just like with coffins.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Their coffins are carried by military brigades and saluted by soldiers as family members and friends weep.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffins
Noun
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Average caskets run between $2,000 and $5,000 in the United States, but some made of mahogany, bronze or copper can cost upward of $10,000, according to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Consumer Advice department.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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The group staged a mock funeral procession in January 2021, with doctors carrying caskets on their shoulders, representing 384 people who had died in the nation’s smallest state of an overdose the previous year.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Perhaps even worse is the horrifying relatability, as the bereaved father ignores the warnings and buries his dead child in an ancient burial ground.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Wednesday sets out to stop Isaac from doing the same to Pugsley, but in the process, Isaac captures Thing (Victor Dorobantu) — revealing that Thing was originally his hand, which Morticia had chopped off — and buries Wednesday alive.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Coffins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffins. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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