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encoffining

encoffining is the present participle and gerund of encoffin.

Meaning of encoffin

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

Questions about encoffining

What is encoffining the present participle and gerund of?
Encoffining is the present participle and gerund of encoffin.

Words near encoffining in the dictionary

  1. encodings
  2. encoffin
  3. encoffined
  4. encoffiner
  5. encoffiners
  6. encoffining
  7. encoffinment
  8. encoffinments
  9. encoffins
  10. encoignure
  11. encoignures

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