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Coffined vs Confined - What's the difference?

coffined | confined |

As verbs the difference between coffined and confined

is that coffined is past tense of coffin while confined is past tense of confine.

As an adjective confined is

not free to move.

coffined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (coffin)

    • coffin

    English

    (wikipedia coffin)

    Alternative forms

    * cophin (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
  • (obsolete) A basket.
  • * Wycliffe's Bible
    • And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).
  • A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
  • (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
    • (Nares)
  • The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Usage notes

    The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

    Synonyms

    * casket (US)

    Derived terms

    * coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinment

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a coffin.
  • * 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:
    • The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

    Synonyms

    * encoffin

    confined

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (confine)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • not free to move

    • confine

    English

    Verb

    (confin)
  • To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
  • * Dryden
    • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
  • To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
  • * Milton
    • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
  • * Dryden
    • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Limit.

    • Synonyms

    * (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----