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corpse [kawrps]

Main Entry:	corpse [kawrps] Show IPA/kɔrps/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dead body
Synonyms:	body, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, deceased, departed, mort, remains, stiff*

* = informal/non-formal usage
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Main Entry:	cadaver
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dead body
Synonyms:	body, cage, carcass, corpse, deceased, mort, remains, skeleton, stiff*
Antonyms:	being

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	carcass/carcase
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dead body; framework, base structure
Synonyms:	body, cadaver, corpse, framework, hulk, mort, remains, shell, skeleton, stiff*

* = informal/non-formal usage

Example Sentences

Merlini, that magician beloved of mystery fans, can explain why there is also no corpse for the coffin.

Christian custom at the time required that a corpse be placed on its back, with its head pointing to the west.

Officers searching a coffin and a corpse for contraband.

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Merlini, that magician beloved of mystery fans, can explain why there is also no corpse for the coffin.

Christian custom at the time required that a corpse be placed on its back, with its head pointing to the west.

Officers searching a coffin and a corpse for contraband.

The story of a famous corpse gets a surprising twist.

There's something disorientating about seeing a prosthetic corpse being opened up.

When it kills, a corpse becomes a lethal and untouchable reservoir of contagion.

Two bungled attempts were made to dispose of the corpse.

That's because the narwhal, also known as the corpse whale, may be slightly more sensitive to habitat changes.

Obviously, if a bigfoot corpse turned up tomorrow, science would be delighted to accept bigfoot as a reality.

After an enemy dies off, you can set your crew of soldiers to eating their corpse to get bonus items and extra health.

First, ants are more likely to put a corpse where there already are a bunch of corpses.

Even allowing for the punctured forehead, his corpse looked old and tired.

Later graves are nothing more than large holes where monatti, or corpse carriers, hastily unloaded their carts.

After a few weeks, spores fall from the now fully eaten corpse to infect other ants and continue the fungus' life cycle.

The corpse is believed to be that of the boat's captain, killed after his vessel was hijacked.

If the police kill a crook, she flies to the scene of the shoot-out to pose over the bleeding corpse.

However, to get there in one piece required a preserved body, so people who could afford it wished to have their corpse mummified.

They shouldn't go through with pinning it on this innocent corpse.

But the head wounds visible on almost every corpse testified otherwise.

Even after his corpse was tossed overboard, some said it circled the boat three times before sinking.

He consumed the man's corpse over the next several months.

Months afterwards her dismembered corpse was recovered from a beach cave.

When a woman's corpse was discovered, workers rushed in with sacks and a plastic sheet to lift the body out.

Heaven knows what harm a corpse might suffer from an unlicensed coffin.

The smell of musth and urine, of fresh death, hung over the mound of the corpse.

Among the images that didn't make the cut was a corpse with a toe tag.

We all file by silently, glancing at his bloated, waxen corpse.

The corpse had no broken bones, its skull was intact, and it had a full set of teeth.

It seemed that when the corpse was kept at home, when the funeral at church was over, family.

Investigators found the badly decomposed corpse in an automobile baggage carrier amid loose debris in a barn near the house.

The corpse had already been there a few days: it was seething with maggots hatched.

The swarm of scientists they have investigating the corpse have questions upon questions upon questions.

There was still much to learn about normal human biology, the thinking went, so every corpse was an educational opportunity.

When it was victorious, the kraken would drag the ichthyosaur's corpse back to its den for a feast.

But the plush alien animal corpse proved so popular that a cry went up from fans for somebody to make the joke a reality.

Korea told me that a corpse once sat up and looked at her, before collapsing back down again.

The next morning, she returned to the apartment to find his bloody corpse on the bathroom floor.

Manu also instructs that to touch a corpse after final death ceremonies brings great contamination.

And there's no evidence to date that he knew about the team's alleged killings, corpse mutilations or hash smoking.

One object is already a type of stellar corpse called a white dwarf.

Substantial amounts of carbon dioxide could be released into the atmosphere from the corpse of the old forest.

As the corpse count climbed, several problems arose such as over.

Some of the narration is powerful, such as the sickeningly detailed description of one unfortunate man's blown-up corpse.

Our pair of heroes steps over the guard's bloodied corpse.

But after two hours of searching, he couldn't find the corpse.

COLLAPSE

Main Entry:	carrion
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	decaying flesh
Synonyms:	body, corpse, remains

Main Entry:	carcass
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dead body
Synonyms:	body, cadaver, cold meat, corpse, framework, hulk, loved one, mort, remains, shell, skeleton, stiff

Main Entry:	dead body
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	mortal remains
Synonyms:	body, cadaver, carcass, clay, corpse, dead man, remains, stiff

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