coffins
Final resting containers
Coffins are boxes designed to hold a dead body for burial or cremation.
The word evokes the traditional elongated hexagonal shape—wider at the shoulders, tapering toward the head and feet—though rectangular caskets are now more common in American funeral practice.
Coffin also works as a verb: to coffin a body is to place it in one.
The phrase nail in the coffin refers to something that contributes to an eventual failure or downfall.
Burial container
- graveSerious and worrying
- funeralService honoring the dead
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- burialPlacing deceased underground
hearse · pallbearer · interment · tomb · mortuary · undertaker · graveside · lowering
No longer living
- corpseDeceased human body
- bodyPhysical structure, living thing
- remainsContinues in place
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
repose · viewing · wake · laying out · mortality · departed · cadaver · lifeless
Legendary Transylvanian vampire
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- stakeSharpened post or share
- crucifixCross with Christ figure
- garlicPungent culinary bulb
lid · nocturnal · gothic · Transylvania · horror · rising · sleeping · dirt
Removable container cover
- handlesGrasping parts or manages
- liningInterior fabric layer
- satinGlossy-surfaced woven cloth
- velvetThick-pile textile
wood · mahogany · oak · pine · brass · hinges · pillow · rectangular
Carved stone burial container
- mummyEmbalmed, wrapped ancient body
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- EgyptianRelating to the pharaohs' land
- vikingMedieval Nordic raider
ship burial · sky burial · cremation · pyre · urn · ancestral · ossuary · catacomb
Unavoidable grim fate
- endFinal portion or cessation
- demiseCessation of existence
- downfallSudden loss of power
- sealed fateOutcome that's now unavoidable
final blow · death knell · last straw · finishing touch · curtains · confinement · trapped · enclosed
casket
Burial container
burial · hearse · pallbearer · interment · tomb · mortuary · undertaker · graveside · lowering · vault
deceased
No longer living
embalming · repose · viewing · wake · laying out · mortality · departed · cadaver · lifeless · death
Dracula
Legendary Transylvanian vampire
garlic · lid · nocturnal · gothic · Transylvania · horror · rising · sleeping · dirt · soil
lid
Removable container cover
velvet · wood · mahogany · oak · pine · brass · hinges · pillow · rectangular · tapered
sarcophagus
Carved stone burial container
- mummyEmbalmed, wrapped ancient body
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- EgyptianRelating to the pharaohs' land
viking · ship burial · sky burial · cremation · pyre · urn · ancestral · ossuary · catacomb · crypt
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
sealed fate · final blow · death knell · last straw · finishing touch · curtains · confinement · trapped · enclosed · suffocating
- Egyptian Antiquitiesmummies, sarcophagi, sarcophagus, canopic jars, scarabs
- haunted attractionshaunted house, jump scare, haunted maze, jump scares, strobe light
- Gothic castledungeons, towers, turrets, battlements, drawbridges
- death carefuneral, burial, cremation, casket, hearse
- Egyptologypyramids, pyramid, pharaohs, pharaoh, hieroglyphs
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
coffinscradles
Rocking infant beds
cribs · wombs · bassinets · incubators · nurseries
coffinsshelters
Places offering protection
safe rooms · bunkers · life rafts · escape pods · lifeboats
- final nail in the coffinLast act ensuring failure
- nail in coffinFinal contributing setback
- coffin nailsMorbid cigarette slang
- last nail in the coffinUltimate cause of failure
- glass coffinTransparent burial container
- tiny coffin