corpse
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noun
1.
a dead body, usually of a human being.
2.
something no longer useful or viable: rusting corpses of old cars.
3.
Obsolete. a human or animal body, whether alive or dead.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a dead body, esp of a human being; cadaver |
| —vb | |
| 2. | slang theatre to laugh or cause to laugh involuntarily or inopportunely while on stage |
| [C14: from Old French corps body, from Latin corpus body] | |
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Corpse
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
corpse
1540s, variant spelling of corps (q.v.). The -p- was originally silent, as in French, and with some speakers still is. The terminal -e was rare before 19c. Corpse-candle is attested from 1690s.
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Medical Dictionary
corpse (kôrps)
n.
A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.
A cadaver.
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
But this particular caterpillar is already dead, and its corpse has been protected by two unseen and unlikely partners.
No, he is dead, his corpse is there to be seen and buried.
She had conceived him while she fluttered in the form of a hawk over the corpse of her dead husband.
In that case it had as much effect as applying revitalising body cream to a corpse.
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