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morgue

noun as in mortuary

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Lungu died in South Africa in June, and his body is still in a morgue there because of the failure to reach agreement over his burial.

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Suddenly, Kassem said: "This is it. I'm sure of it. This is the building that contained the morgue."

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The mother of a 22-year-old man who was shot in the back with a sub-machine gun three years ago said the image of seeing his body lying in a morgue still "haunts" her.

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A morgue visit elicits disinterest and little more than a body count, with Sara wondering if “ten makes a massacre. I only counted six.”

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The bodies of 54 migrants were discovered onshore in the southern district of Khanfar, and 14 others were taken to a hospital morgue in the Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar, the Associated Press reported.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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