morgue
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6.5
- noun
- /mɔrɡ/
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morgue
- Families often must wait for the autopsy results before leaving the morgue.
We don't spend Saturday night down at the morgue looking at autopsies.
- We don't spend Saturday night down at the morgue looking at autopsies.
- And it was, there was a process to finally get it, to get it to the morgue, right?
- The next time anybody saw this woman was in the morgue.
- As our camera flips through all the different rooms, the one room that it cannot access is the morgue.
- And I remember just laying there like I was some dead body on a slab in a in a morgue.
- But ultimately I'm sitting in a morgue and I'm responsible for first class passengers identification in that jet that went down here, right?
- I went out with scenes of crime and we went to the morgue one day and there was a girl there called Wanda Scala who was killed by the serial killer Trevor Hardy.
- Yeah, you know how you take those trips to the morgue with teenager?
- And I hope to never sleep in a morgue again.
- That's just a couple, the the morgue in the corner in Ohio, Franklin County, Ohio.
Examples
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After the accident, the victim was taken to the morgue for identification.
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The detective visited the morgue to examine the body for clues in the case.
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And I hope to never sleep in a morgue again.
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Yeah, I would never work at a morgue no matter how much they pay me.
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I worked in the morgue there, and I took pictures of anything they needed.
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Then, morning after morning, I would go into the morgue, and there would be new cases.
Fiction book (1994) -
Alex Gray worked in the morgue of the Harvard Medical School for five years.
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Jason's body has disappeared from the morgue.
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The deceased bodies were recovered and transferred to morgues by rescue teams.
Academic text (2007) -
By 4:00 p.m., all bodies had been accounted for and/or transported to the morgue for identification.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.4
A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
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7.5
A place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
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3.4
A place where dead people are kept and prepared before burial or cremation for family to visit and pay respects
A cold room in hospitals and funeral homes that holds dead bodies before burial or cremation
A place where people go to see a dead person and pay their respects
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word morgue comes from French and originally meant a place where bodies were shown so people could identify them. It is like the word mortuary, from the root mort- meaning 'death', so a morgue is where dead bodies are kept.