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driving a nail in someone's coffin

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
driv-ing a -nail in -some-one's -cof-fin
IPA
43
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of drive a nail in someone's coffin

Questions

What does driving a nail in someone's coffin mean?
present participle and gerund of drive a nail in someone's coffin

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