morgue
noun /mɔːɡ/
/mɔːrɡ/
- a building in which dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated (= burned)
- They found his body lying in the city morgue.
- This place is like a morgue!
WordfinderTopics Life stagesc2, Buildingsc2- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn
- a place where dead bodies that have been found are kept until they can be identified
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.