Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flesh-devouring.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or suggesting a
sarcophagus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We cut to a dark, sarcophagal bedroom, littered with medicine bottles and crumpled Kleenex.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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We cut to a dark, sarcophagal bedroom, littered with medicine bottles and crumpled Kleenex.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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We cut to a dark, sarcophagal bedroom, littered with medicine bottles and crumpled Kleenex.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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What’s amazing about Brady is that it was entirely retrofitted inside of Yale’s ghastly, sarcophagal Payne Whitney gymnasium, not to be confused with Manhattan’s ghastly, sarcophagal Payne Whitney psychiatric clinic, temporary abode of Marilyn Monroe, poet Robert Lowell, and novelist Mary McCarthy.
The Greatest Place to Play Squash?: Alex Beam Beam, Alex 2008
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