| 单词 | corpse |
| 释义 | corpse (once / 482 pages) n Another name for a dead body is corpse. You might hear the word on TV crime shows, but a corpse doesn't have to be a crime victim, just any lifeless body. The words corpse and "corps" are often confused, and with good reason — both came from the Latin word corpus, meaning "body," and up until the 19th Century, both referred to a dead person. Around that time, the word with the "e" at the end was established as the word for a person's remains, while the other spelling was relegated to a "body" of people working together or in a military division, and very much alive! WORD FAMILYcorpse USAGE EXAMPLESMedical examiners visually inspected the corpse, which was found dressed in a shirt, sweater and pants. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) Boyle, now 73, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for aggravated murder and 18 months for abuse of a corpse. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) She shot him and slipped his corpse into a coffin with another cadaver to escape detection. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) n the dead body of a human being the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse Syn|Hypo|Hyper cadaver, clay, remains, stiff cremains the remains of a dead body after cremation body, dead body a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person |
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