coffin

/'kɔfin/

Thân thiện

A carpenter carefully builds a wooden coffin in his workshop.

Definition

1. Noun - A box or chest for burying or cremating a dead body: A "coffin" is a long, rectangular container, typically made of wood, in which a corpse is placed for burial or cremation.

2. Verb - To place or enclose (a corpse) in a coffin: The act of putting a dead body into a coffin.

Examples

• Noun:
  • The wooden coffin was carried by six pallbearers.
  • They chose a simple pine coffin for the funeral.
• Verb:
  • The deceased was coffined in a private ceremony before the public viewing.
  • Her body was coffined according to her final wishes.

Advanced Usage

• A nail in someone's coffin: An action or event that contributes to someone's failure, downfall, or death.
  • Losing that major client was another nail in the company's coffin.
• To drive a nail into one's own coffin: To do something that hastens one's own ruin or death.
  • By ignoring his doctor's advice, he was driving a nail into his own coffin.

Variants and Related Words

• Coffin-shaped (adj): Having the elongated, hexagonal shape typical of a coffin.
  • The antique jewelry box was coffin-shaped.
• Coffin nail (n, slang, archaic): A cigarette.
  • He stepped outside for a coffin nail.

Synonyms

• Casket (n): A small box or chest, often used as a more general or euphemistic term for a coffin, especially in American English.
• Sarcophagus (n): A stone coffin, often associated with ancient civilizations and often ornamented.

Phrasal Verbs / Related Verb Phrases

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• To be in one's coffin: To be dead and buried.
  • He'll be turning in his coffin if he knew what they've done to the family business.

Học thuật

Noun

1. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Verb

1. place into a coffin
   • her body was coffined

Từ đồng nghĩa

• casket