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Sarcophagus

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounA stonen coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
2.NounThe cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
3.NounThe cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
4.NounA type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
5.NounA kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
6.VerbTo enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
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