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   coffin

   /ˈkɒfɪn/

   noun

   • 1. a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a dead body is buried or cremated: "they lowered her coffin into the ground"
   • ▪ an old and unsafe aircraft or ship: "a clapped-out one-gun flying coffin"

   verb

   • 1. put (a dead body) in a coffin: "the young man was coffined decently"

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

   Scrabble Points: 14

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   • O

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   • F

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   • I

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