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▸ noun:  A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
▸ noun:  (by extension)
▸ noun:  (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
▸ noun:  (historical) A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
▸ noun:  (obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).

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