Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a coffin.

Etymologies

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coffin +‎ -like

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Examples

  • I looked into that dark, coffinlike space and imagined myself crammed in there, yelling and screaming and crying.

    The Opposite of Me SARAH PEKKANEN 2010

  • Prisoners could be thrown into walls, waterboarded, shackled to the ceiling for hours, deprived of sleep for up to 11 days and locked in coffinlike boxes.

    Have We Softened Up On Torture? 2009

  • The tipping point came when, after a few weeks, Soufan saw the coffinlike box that Mitchell had constructed.

    Abu Zubaydah and Ali Soufan: Discrepancies? | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • After four hours spent searching the corridors with flashlights, police came upon a coffinlike chamber attached to the second-floor ceiling.

    Tokyo Grabs The Doomsday Guru 2008

  • In a cartoon depicting the miseries of seasickness, Clover sketched two figures lying stiffly in coffinlike berths on opposite sides of the state-room.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • In a cartoon depicting the miseries of seasickness, Clover sketched two figures lying stiffly in coffinlike berths on opposite sides of the state-room.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Emery ran her fingers over a miniature coffinlike brass model, and another that looked like a humidor, and then a granite one that looked like a smooth-sided Eiffel Tower or a perfume bottle.

    Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005

  • Emery ran her fingers over a miniature coffinlike brass model, and another that looked like a humidor, and then a granite one that looked like a smooth-sided Eiffel Tower or a perfume bottle.

    Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005

  • After calmly replacing the pistol in his pocket, the assassin stared at the wooden, coffinlike box.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • Emery ran her fingers over a miniature coffinlike brass model, and another that looked like a humidor, and then a granite one that looked like a smooth-sided Eiffel Tower or a perfume bottle.

    Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005

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