coffin
/ˈkɔfɪn/ verb C2- To place in a coffin.
He/she/it coffins · Past coffined · Past participle coffined · -ing form coffining
Verb forms
- Base form
- coffin
- He/she/it
- coffins
- Past
- coffined
- Past participle
- coffined
- -ing form
- coffining
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In the parlor lay Matthew Cuthbert in his coffin, his long gray hair framing his placid face on which there was a little kindly smile as if he but slept, dreaming pleasant dreams.
I had him put into a leaden coffin, and I am preceding him by a few days.”
de Villefort’s door, and the coffin removed into it from the post-wagon.
“Whatever may happen, Valentine, do not be alarmed; though you suffer; though you lose sight, hearing, consciousness, fear nothing; though you should awake and be ignorant where you are, still do not fear; even though you should find yourself in a sepulchral vault or coffin.
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