| 单词 | coffin |
| 释义 | coffin (once / 435 pages) nv The long wooden box in which a dead body is kept for burial or cremation is called a coffin. At a graveside funeral, you'll see the coffin lowered into a grave. Most coffins are made of wood, though they can also be steel, fiberglass, or bamboo. A coffin is generally thought of as the same thing as a casket, although some people distinguish between a six-sided coffin and a four-sided casket. The earliest meaning of coffin, from the 14th century, was "box for valuables," from the Latin cophinus, "basket or hamper," and the Greek root kophinos, "a basket." WORD FAMILYcoffin: coffined, coffining, coffins USAGE EXAMPLESWhen I’m lying in my coffin and they pull back the lid, the smile on my face will be from that day in Korea.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) A successful punt into that “coffin corner” would be unreturnable, and pin the opposing team deep in its territory. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Just in case you might miss the fervour of his opinion, two fellow protestors marched, bearing a coffin with the president's name on it. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1n box in which a corpse is buried or cremated Syn|Hypo|Hyper casket bier a coffin along with its stand sarcophagusa stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) box a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid 2v place into a coffin her body was coffined Hyper lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location |
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