body
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1.6
- noun
- /ˈbɑdi/
- And then they take Kiefer's body away, right?
- a dead body
- bury a body
- find a body
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- And then they take Kiefer's body away, right?
- What did Dick Tips do with this body anyway?
- I made bloody bodies fall within city walls.
- I had to guard a horribly mutilated body and I got assaulted.
- And we buried the wrong body so he'd come back alive.
- And they, they hid the body and that's that.
- You found more body pieces than you found bodies.
- But during next moulded many men like bodies of dwarfs under earth.
Examples
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They found Dietrichson's body on the tracks near Burbank.
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I shall force someone to take the body away from him.
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And I see this body lying on the floor.
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What did Dick Tips do with this body anyway?
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Did you find the bodies I buried in my basement?
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I believe that when my body dies, that's it for me.
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The largest of these, the "Great Death Pit," contained the bodies of 68 women and six men.
Academic text (2011) -
The rider comes across the near-lifeless body of the Ranger by the side of a spring.
Academic text (2013) -
Reporter: Hours after the discovery, the body of the young woman was removed from the home.
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And then they take Kiefer's body away, right?
Synonyms
348
4.9
A dead body of a person
253
1.6
A person or animal that is no longer alive
237
6.0
The body parts left after a person has died
129
1.0
A person who is no longer alive
76
4.6
A dead animal body or the remains of something destroyed
51
8.2
A dead human body used for medical study or teaching
1
9.9
A dead body often mentioned in old stories or books
1
9.9
The human body in old writing, usually a dead body
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
1
9.9
To find a dead person, often during police work or as slang for killing someone
Compounds
78
2.7
The way a person moves their face, hands, and body to show feelings without words
- Specialized
33
4.1
Clothing made of strong material that protects the body from bullets and blows
19
3.4
A group of people or organization that manages and sets rules for an institution
- NSFW
10
9.9
A person who steals dead bodies from graves to sell to medical schools for study
- Specialized
10
2.8
A liquid from the body of people and animals, for example blood, saliva or urine
- Formal
8
4.5
An official group of people who make and change laws for a country or state
- Specialized
6
3.2
A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height
- Specialized
6
4.4
A natural object in space like a star or planet that you can see in the sky
6
3.1
A tight, stretchy piece of clothing that covers the torso and sometimes the arms and legs
- Specialized
3
8.5
An object that absorbs all light and other kinds of radiation that hit it
- Specialized
1
8.7
A small insect that lives in clothing, bites people, and can spread disease
- Specialized
1
4.0
The way the parts of a living body are arranged to give it shape and help it move
- Specialized
1
7.6
Light and heat given off by an object that absorbs all light, changing colour with temperature
- Specialized
1
9.9
An object that emits less light and heat than a perfect emitter at the same temperature
1
5.0
The physical part of a person with skin, bones, and organs, not the mind or spirit
- NSFW
1
6.8
A tight one-piece underwear that covers the torso and sometimes arms and legs
- Specialized
1
4.4
The temperature you measure right after waking and before you move or eat
- Specialized
1
8.1
Small area in a cell near the nucleus that holds centrioles and arranges tiny tubes
- Jargon
1
9.0
A movement of your body after throwing or hitting a ball to change its direction
- Specialized
1
8.2
A small gland in the brain that makes melatonin and helps control sleep and daily body rhythms
- Specialized
1
3.9
A large passenger plane with two aisles that carries many people
- Specialized
1
9.1
A medical machine with a chamber that surrounds the body to measure lung size and how well you breathe
- Specialized
1
8.6
A clear jelly that fills the space between the lens and the back of the eye
- Specialized
1
8.5
A muscle disease that slowly makes arm and thigh muscles weak in older adults
- Jargon
1
8.9
A difficulty when two partners both need jobs in the same place, making moving hard
- Specialized
1
5.8
An airplane with one aisle that airlines often use on short or domestic flights
- Specialized
1
9.2
A physics question about how two objects move when they pull on each other, for example by gravity
- Specialized
1
9.9
A very small cell with little liquid that forms when an egg divides and that the body usually discards
- Specialized
1
7.2
A small group of cells near the split of the neck artery that senses blood oxygen and helps control breathing
- Specialized
1
5.8
A small oval gland at the base of the brain that controls other glands
- Specialized
1
9.9
A small oval group of nerve cells under the thalamus that send signals from the senses to the brain's cortex
How Decomposed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Body first meant the living 'trunk' of a person, and by extension people began to call the physical remains after death a 'body', which is why we use the same word for a dead person.