variants
also sarcophaguses
as in tombs
a boxlike container for holding a dead body
the crypt under the abbey church contains the sarcophagus of the monastery's founding abbot
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Noun
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025 -
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
Noun
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The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Too often, the radioactive material landed in crematoriums and coffins.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Sarcophagi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sarcophagi. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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