- a dead body, esp. of a person
- something once vigorous but now lifeless and of no use
- Obs. a living body
Origin of corpse
variant, variety of corps
noun
The definition of a corpse is a dead body.
An example of a corpse is what you'd see at a funeral with an open casket.
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corpse
noun
A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.
Origin of corpse
Middle English corps from Latin corpus ; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural corpses)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present corpses, present participle corpsing, simple past and past participle corpsed)
- (intransitive, slang, of an act) to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably
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corpse - Medical Definition
n.
A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.
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Sentence Examples
- Or was it the corpse of Mr. Abbott?
- Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper.
- On the way to the cemetery the corpse is generally carried to some revered mosque.
- The door leading to his father.s corpse was locked, and he tested it.
- A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away.
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