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encoffins

encoffins is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 encoffins

What is encoffins the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Encoffins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of encoffin.

Words near encoffins in the dictionary

  1. encoffiner
  2. encoffiners
  3. encoffining
  4. encoffinment
  5. encoffinments
  6. encoffins
  7. encoignure
  8. encoignures
  9. encolden
  10. encoldened
  11. encoldening

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