body
- noun
- /ˈbɑdi/
- And then they take Kiefer's body away, right?
- a dead body
- bury a body
- find a body
And then they take Kiefer's body away, right?
- 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
A dead body of a person
A person or animal that is no longer alive
The body parts left after a person has died
A person who is no longer alive
A dead animal body or the remains of something destroyed
A dead human body used for medical study or teaching
The human body in old writing, usually a dead body
A dead body often mentioned in old stories or books
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
To find a dead person, often during police work or as slang for killing someone
Compounds
The way a person moves their face, hands, and body to show feelings without words
- Specialized
Clothing made of strong material that protects the body from bullets and blows
A group of people or organization that manages and sets rules for an institution
- Formal
An official group of people who make and change laws for a country or state
- Specialized
A liquid from the body of people and animals, for example blood, saliva or urine
- Specialized
A natural object in space like a star or planet that you can see in the sky
- Specialized
A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height
- NSFW
A person who steals dead bodies from graves to sell to medical schools for study
- Specialized
An object that absorbs all light and other kinds of radiation that hit it
A tight, stretchy piece of clothing that covers the torso and sometimes the arms and legs
- NSFW
A tight one-piece underwear that covers the torso and sometimes arms and legs
- Specialized
The temperature you measure right after waking and before you move or eat
- Jargon
A movement of your body after throwing or hitting a ball to change its direction
- Specialized
A medical machine with a chamber that surrounds the body to measure lung size and how well you breathe
- Specialized
Light and heat given off by an object that absorbs all light, changing colour with temperature
The physical part of a person with skin, bones, and organs, not the mind or spirit
- Specialized
An object that emits less light and heat than a perfect emitter at the same temperature
- Specialized
A small gland in the brain that makes melatonin and helps control sleep and daily body rhythms
- Specialized
A clear jelly that fills the space between the lens and the back of the eye
- Specialized
A natural way for a woman to find her fertile days by taking her temperature every morning
- Specialized
A natural way to avoid pregnancy by checking a woman's daily morning temperature to find days she can get pregnant
- Specialized
A small insect that lives in clothing, bites people, and can spread disease
- Specialized
The way the parts of a living body are arranged to give it shape and help it move
- Specialized
A small abnormal structure inside certain white blood cells seen in some cancers
- Specialized
A small group of cells near the split of the neck artery that senses blood oxygen and helps control breathing
- Specialized
Small area in a cell near the nucleus that holds centrioles and arranges tiny tubes
- Specialized
Part of the eye behind the iris that changes the lens shape and makes the clear fluid inside the eye
- Archaic
Small chemicals made when the body breaks down fat for energy, often seen in blood or urine during diabetes
- Specialized
A sudden infection by the herpes virus that damages the front and side parts of the brain
- Specialized
A brain part that sends signals from the eyes to the back of the brain for vision
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.