uncoffined
/uhn-kaw-find, -kof-ind/US // ʌnˈkɔ fɪnd, -ˈkɒf ɪnd //
未入棺的,未入殓的,未入殓,未入棺
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : not put into a coffin: an uncoffined corpse.
Examples
There were some tiny kists for children, but a great number of the bodies had been buried uncoffined.
Here the mourners gathered round to take a last look of the uncoffined corpses of the brave.
Here they would lie, uncoffined and unburied for years, moldering into dust, their cruel fate forever hidden from men.
"They say they must bury the corpses uncoffined soon," Joseph heard him whisper to his foreman as he passed by.
He cites the burial fees paid to the parson as twice as much for coffined as for uncoffined corpses.
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