Synonyms of coffins

coffins 1 of 2

noun

plural of coffin

as in caskets

a boxlike container for holding a dead body

coffins are said to be the preferred sleeping places of vampires

Synonyms & Similar Words

• caskets
• tombs
• sarcophagi
• boxes
• urns
• biers
• vaults
• palls
• crypts
• sepulchres
• body bags
• charnels
• sepultures

coffins

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of coffin

as in tombs

Related Words

• tombs
• entombs
• hearses
• curtains
• inters
• buries
• hides
• cloaks
• conceals
• shrouds
• shields
• ensconces
• shades
• puts away
• inhumes
• lays
• covers
• enshrouds
• obscures
• reburies
• reinters
• immures
• enshrines
• inurns

Dissimilar Words

• exhumes
• unearths
• disinters
• exhibits
• burns
• displays
• cremates
• reveals
• shows
• discloses
• exposes
• discovers
• bares
• uncoffins

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of coffins

Noun

Draped in Palestinian flags, the coffins were carried through streets filled with nationalist songs and chants. — Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

On Tuesday, the bodies lay in white coffins at a church in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, before their burial. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

The excavation, carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission under the supervision of the SCA, also uncovered pottery coffins, as well as a collection of incense burners, oil lamps, and funerary amulets. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2026

In the mid-nineteenth century, the abolitionist Henrietta Bowers Duterte operated an Underground Railroad stop in her Philadelphia funeral home, hiding fugitive slaves in coffins. — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Several trucks arrived with coffins throughout Monday, according to the cemetery worker who spoke to CNN. — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 7 July 2026

Some reached out to touch the truck, which was also carrying the coffins of some of Khamenei’s family members. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 July 2026

While Ishmael may pause before coffin-warehouses—coffins, of all sorts, become a major leitmotif of the novel—or even talk of committing suicide, his tone is wry, even ironic. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Footage from Iranian state media also showed three of Khamenei's sons—Mostafa, Meysam, and Masoud—crying as the coffins of their father and other family members were carried out into Tehran's Grand Mosalla on Sunday. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 5 July 2026