sarcophagi (0 synonym found)

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Definition of sarcophagi:

(n) : A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
(v) : (transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
(n) : (by extension) (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
(n) : (by extension) (historical) A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
(n) : (obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

Definition of sarcophagi:

(n) : A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
(v) : (transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
(n) : (by extension) (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
(n) : (by extension) (historical) A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
(n) : (obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

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