Corpse
11corpse — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ human ▪ naked ▪ bloody, charred, headless, mangled, mutilated ▪ decaying …
12Corpse — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Corpse >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 corpse corpse corse carcass cadaver bones skeleton dry bones Sgm: N 1 defunct defunct relics reliquiae remains mortal remains …
13corpse */ — UK [kɔː(r)ps] / US [kɔrps] noun [countable] Word forms corpse : singular corpse plural corpses the body of a dead person …
14corpse — corps, corpse Corps, meaning ‘body of people’, is pronounced like core in the singular and like cores in the plural. It should be distinguished from corpse, meaning ‘dead body’, which is pronounced kawps …
15corpse — 1. n. an empty liquor or beer bottle. (See also dead soldier.) □ Sam tossed another corpse out the window. □ Throw your corpses in the trash can, you jerk! 2. n. a cigarette butt. □ The wino picked up the corpse and put it in a little box of them …
16corpse — n. a dead (usu. human) body. Phrases and idioms: corpse candle 1 a lambent flame seen in a churchyard or over a grave, regarded as an omen of death. 2 a lighted candle placed beside a corpse before burial. Etymology: ME corps, var. spelling of… …
17corpse — SYN: cadaver. [L. corpus, body] * * * corpse kȯ(ə)rps n a dead body esp. of a human being * * * (korps) [corpus] a dead body; used to refer specifically to a human body in the early period after death. Cf. cadaver …
18corpse — Synonyms and related words: ashes, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, body, bones, broomstick, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay, clothes pole, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed… …
19corpse — [14] Latin corpus ‘body’ has two direct descendants in English: corpse, which came via Old French cors, and corps [18], which came via modern French corps. The former first entered English in the 13th century as cors, and during the 14th century… …
20Corpse — 30 minutes past the hour: corpse four …
