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casket
[ kas-kit, kah-skit ]
noun
- a coffin.
- a small chest or box, as for jewels.
verb (used with object)
- to put or enclose in a casket.
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Other Words From
- casket·like adjective
- un·casket·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of casket1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of casket1
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Example Sentences
When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.
Sitting in chairs staring at the casket are friends, family, and… Kevin Spacey?
It was better that he did not look at the casket and grave of John Fitzgerald Kennedy too often.
When she came up to the grave at the cemetery, the casket already was in place.
A 12-year-old boy who escaped the shooting with his mother introduced himself to Sullivan at the casket viewing.
Next from the large casket Mrs. Sin took another smaller casket and a very long, tapering silver bodkin.
When Big Sid looked at you that way, a guy felt he was being measured for a casket.
She surprised him at the moment when he was forcing open a casket, and struck him a blow with her riding whip.
We shall starve to death—like Croton water-bugs caught in a diamond casket, said Flick, who had a taste for poetical flights.
In that box will be found the bars of silver and a casket containing the eight hundred and sixty gold pieces.
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