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

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

The coffins were taken through the streets of Tehran on a roughly 12-hour journey to Mehrabad International Airport, and Khamenei’s casket was flown later Monday to the Shiite seminary city of Qom, according to state television. — Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 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

The coffins were taken through the streets of Tehran on a roughly 12-hour journey to Mehrabad International Airport, where state television footage showed a truck approaching with the caskets. — ABC News, 5 July 2026

Killed alongside Khamenei, and displayed in coffins next to his, were his daughter, son-in-law and baby granddaughter, as well as the wife ​of his son Mojtaba. — Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 3 July 2026

The morgue that serves La Guaira is makeshift—a white tent on a dock lined with body bags and coffins. — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026

New aerial footage from Venezuela shows hundreds of coffins lined up at the Port of La Guaira, where authorities have established a temporary morgue for earthquake victims. — Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 1 July 2026