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sarcophagusing

sarcophagusing is the present participle and gerund of sarcophagus.

Meaning of sarcophagus

Verb

sarcophagus (third-person singular simple present sarcophaguses, present participle sarcophagusing, simple past and past participle sarcophagused)

  1. (transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
    • All waiting: the new-coffined dead, / The handful of mere dust that lies / Sarcophagused in stone and lead / Under the weight of centuries: / Knight, cardinal, bishop, abbess mild, / With last week's buried year-old child.1862 April, [Dinah Maria Mulock], “Waiting”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume V, number 30, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 464

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Questions about sarcophagusing

What is sarcophagusing the present participle and gerund of?
Sarcophagusing is the present participle and gerund of sarcophagus.

Words near sarcophagusing in the dictionary

  1. sarcophagizing
  2. sarcophagous
  3. sarcophagus
  4. sarcophagused
  5. sarcophaguses
  6. sarcophagusing
  7. sarcophaguslike
  8. sarcophagussed
  9. sarcophagusses
  10. sarcophagy
  11. sarcophile

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