corpsenoun [ C ]
uk/kɔːps/us/kɔːrps/C2 a dead body, usually of a person
Examples
- The corpse was in an advanced stage of decomposition.
- Most of the corpses were badly burned, making identification almost impossible.
- The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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Examples from literature
- A sergeant came into the room, breathing quickly, and looked in surprise from the corpse to the inspector.
- For this purpose the people gather round the corpse and carry it outside of the village.
- He eyed the corpse closely, and then proceeded to examine the death wound.
- However that may be, dead bodies might be either buried or burned, provided the deposit of the corpse or the ashes were made outside of the city.
- Then his grasp relaxed, and he fell back a corpse.