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encoffin

encoffin verb: to place or enclose in a coffin.

Verb

encoffin (third-person singular simple present encoffins, present participle encoffining, simple past and past participle encoffined)

  1. (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
    • The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Forms of encoffin

third-person singular presentencoffins
present participleencoffining
past participleencoffined
pastencoffined

Origin of encoffin

From en- + coffin.

Words formed from encoffin

Questions about encoffin

What does encoffin mean?
Encoffin means to place or enclose in a coffin.
What part of speech is encoffin?
Encoffin is a verb.
What is the past tense of encoffin?
The past tense of encoffin is encoffined.

Words near encoffin in the dictionary

  1. encoder
  2. encoders
  3. encodes
  4. encoding
  5. encodings
  6. encoffin
  7. encoffined
  8. encoffiner
  9. encoffiners
  10. encoffining
  11. encoffinment

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