corpse

[US]/kɔːps/
[UK]/kɔːrps/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the dead body of a human or animal

Example Sentences

an attempt to preserve the corpse from decomposition

They saw the corpse sprawled on the steps.

The corpse was sewn up in a sack and thrown into the river.

The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.

corpses laid out on cold mortuary slabs

can the poor wretch's corpse tell us anything?.

planted a gun on the corpse to make the death look like suicide.

He identified the corpse as the criminal hunted after.

Because silphid's sense of smell is very flexible, very far away can smell the animal corpse the smell.

The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them.

We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet.

From a puckered hole in the corpse's desiccated trunk rose the stump of an arrow, broken off a handsbreadth above the ribs.

At a time when the trend of “corpse-art” was the main tendency, Gao Feng’s performance was indeed filled with gentle and humoristic tones.

A vampire in the grave could be told by holes in the earth, an undecomposed corpse with a red face, or having one foot in the corner of the coffin.

The corpse of the victim could be removed only after the police had finished photographing the scene of the crime.

The city is a corpse which gradually dies; Then, those forgotten, abandoned places in the city are beautiful "Livor Mortis".

Widely used in air purification for hospital mortuary, zootomy room, police corpse inspection room etc. Low sorption pressure with high speed, complete and fast sorption relief.

The untouched leavings from the banquet made a fine meal for the kitchen staff. Althoughremains often specifically refers to a corpse, it also applies to remnants, fragments, and relics, as of times past:

Real-world Examples

Jews are forced to carry the corpses.

Source: The Apocalypse of World War II

Entomology being the study of the insects that colonize a corpse.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds March 2017 Collection

The bad news is, you'll be a corpse.

Source: Yale University Open Course: Death (Audio Version)

Spit the corpse out here but digested the skin?

Source: Lost Girl Season 2

She could smell the rotting corpses.

Source: Women Who Changed the World

Well, she just found the mutilated corpse of her boss.

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Basic Deduction Method Season 2

You could have a corpse, and that's clearly not a person.

Source: Yale University Open Course: Death (Audio Version)

A man has reported to the police that he saw a corpse under the bridge.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

So, we're gonna end up the most principled corpses in Potter's Field.

Source: Person of Interest Season 5

And it belongs to our Fae corpse.

Source: Lost Girl Season 2

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