coffin

Converse of object

• drape: How dare he have his coffin draped with a Union Flag at his funeral.
• cremate: Is more than one coffin cremated at the same time?
• carry: Campaigners carry a coffin through the streets of Brussels, with the slogan ' Trade Justice, Not Free Trade ' .
• bury: Drugged, he awakes to find himself buried alive glass coffin with only a gun for company.
• accompany: In some cities this turned into demonstrations accompanying the coffins of Russian soldiers.

Adjective modifier

• leaden: He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or at any rate, had not thought of it.
• flag-draped: Bush was caught bantering as flag-draped coffins arrived at an air force base in Dover, Delaware - a military mortuary.
• biodegradable: We will provide advice on the types of coffin, including biodegradable coffins, which can be used.
• wooden: Bronze Age dead were buried in wooden coffins in mounds called barrows.
• outer: Model coffin The outer wooden coffin contains an inner cardboard coffin.
• empty: The empty coffin now resides at the back of the Yogomaia Mosque, a permanent reminder of the lamentable event.

Modifies a noun

• dodger: Trouble is, what I actually saw was somebody blowing down a stick of wood to a bunch of coffin dodgers.
• lid: The review should have slammed the coffin lid on nuclear power once for all.
• bearer: Coffin Bearers Quite often members of a family ask to bear the coffin.
• nail: Three probable graves were recorded, but only the iron coffin nails survived.
• plate: The coffin plate bore the inscription ' A British Warrior who fell in the Great War ' .

Noun used with modifier

• cardboard: Most people buried in woodland sites are laid to rest in cardboard coffins or wicker baskets.
• stone: Dust of an eight year old in a stone coffin.
• oak: Bert and I made the very posh oak coffin with all the best trimmings and furniture.
• iron: Three probable graves were recorded, but only the iron coffin nails survived.