sarcophagus

/sษ‘ห(ษน)หˆkษ’fษ™ษกษ™s/

IPA: /S AA0 R K AA1 F AH0 G AH0 S/

noun
  1. 1

    A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

  2. 2

    The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

  3. 3

    A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

  4. 4

    An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

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