dead body
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1.6
- noun
- /dɛd ˈbɑdi/
:
cadáver
- In horror movies, it's common to find a dead body in creepy locations.
- see a dead body
The streets are just piled with dead bodies, not from war, but from disease.
- The streets are just piled with dead bodies, not from war, but from disease.
- They started stacking up the dead bodies at the top of that hill.
- For instance, avoidance of feces, dead bodies, feet, things that are very infectious.
- So you've seen thousands of dead bodies that have been murdered.
- Motherfucker had dead bodies in his backyard, buried bones like this.
- Gary and I can't even agree on where we want our dead bodies to be.
- So you do all this and you've never seen a dead body.
- I didn't see their dead bodies, you know, I didn't bury them and so on.
- I saw them drawing dead bodies and shattered houses.
Examples
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The scenes on television of dead bodies, hungry people, and devastated settlements were disturbing.
Academic text (2005) -
I've never seen a dead body before.
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Are you ever scared of finding a dead body in one of these rooms?
Fiction book (1996) -
People are not supposed to eat or drink while a dead body is lying in their house.
Fiction book (1992) -
The streets are just piled with dead bodies, not from war, but from disease.
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Soldiers were coming out of them and gathering the dead bodies to load them into the vans.
Fiction book (1996) -
They started stacking up the dead bodies at the top of that hill.
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I don't want to see another dead body, and I know you don't.
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The detective found a dead body in the abandoned house.
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During the investigation, they discovered several dead bodies hidden in the forest.
Synonyms
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1.6
The dead remains of a person or animal
362
4.9
A dead body of a person
171
6.0
The body parts left after a person has died
99
1.0
A person who is no longer alive
55
8.2
A dead human body used for medical study or teaching
11
9.1
A dead body of a person
3
2.1
A person who is dead
1
9.9
A dead person or animal
A dead body often mentioned in old stories or books
An old word for a dead person
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'dead' (not alive) modifies 'body' (physical remains), so a learner who knows both words will infer 'dead body' as a corpse. This is a literal adjective + noun construction common across languages and standard English, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Dead body is a simple picture: dead means not alive and body means the person's body, so it refers to a 'corpse'.