Meaning

1 senses

  1. (poetic)To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

    enclose in a casket

Examples

12 sentences

  1. Tom walked over to the casket and looked in.

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  2. Sami walked up to the casket.

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  3. You wouldn't fit in a regular casket.

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  4. Where are you importing these caskets from?

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  5. Mothers know their sons are coming back in caskets.

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Origin

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.

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Forms

caskets, casketing, casketed, casketed
Base formcasket · to casket
3rd person singularcaskets
Present participlecasketing
Past simplecasketed
Past participlecasketed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycasket
he, she, itcaskets

Past simpleLesson

all personscasketed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave casketed
he, she, ithas casketed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill casket

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcask

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
casingcasinocaskcassandracassavacasserole
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