corpse
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4.9
- noun
- /kɔrps/
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cadáver
- The detective examined the corpse to gather evidence about the crime.
- the corpse lay
- a decaying corpse
- a bloody corpse
He later said he saw corpses stacked like cord wood.
- He later said he saw corpses stacked like cord wood.
- It's just a rotting corpse in the back seat.
- The fate of world revolution is being decided over the corpses of White Poland.
- They exist in the context of the Syrian children's corpses becoming memes, right?
- I could play a corpse in tagger, I think.
- And so he tells his eyes, fine, look at the corpses all you want.
- It's kind of it's like sprucing up a corpse at this point with some flowers.
- Like they're pulling these bodies, corpses out of the ground, out of The Cave.
- But sex with corpses is part of their sexual practices.
- Alfonso stumbles from the corpse of the soldier.
- And then she looks up at the wall and sees Claire's mangled corpse nailed to the wall.
Examples
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The rescuers discovered the corpse on the shore after the storm.
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Yet the whereabouts of the corpse remain unknown, though perhaps it can still be found.
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You turned so serious when the corpse was carried past us.
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All it took was a corpse and look at you.
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So we need to take this corpse to the Nine Hills.
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It feels like finding a corpse in the bedroom.
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The bad news is you'll be a corpse, right?
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Why do they keep corpses here?
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Within days, thousands of frozen Russian corpses littered the snow.
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The first two stanzas focus rather on describing Procris's corpse as if it were a still life.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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1.6
The dead remains of a person or animal
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1.6
A person or animal that is no longer alive
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6.0
The body parts left after a person has died
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1.0
A person who is no longer alive
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8.2
A dead human body used for medical study or teaching
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2.1
A person who is dead
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9.9
A dead person or animal
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4.3
A person who has died
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Etymology
Corpse comes from the Latin word corpus, which means 'body'. You can see the same root in words like corporation, which originally meant a 'body' of people, and corporal, which relates to the physical body, and that is why corpse means the dead 'body' of a person.