[ˈkɒfɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a dead body is buried or cremated
(e.g: they lowered her coffin into the ground)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the general sense ‘box, casket’): from Old French cofin ‘little basket or case’, from Latin cophinus (see coffer)

[ˈkɒfɪn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- put (a dead body) in a coffin
(e.g: the young man was coffined decently)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the general sense ‘box, casket’): from Old French cofin ‘little basket or case’, from Latin cophinus (see coffer)