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CORPSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dead body of a human being
Example:
honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay
Synonyms:
cadaver; clay; corpse; remains; stiff
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("corpse" is a kind of...):
body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corpse"):
cremains (the remains of a dead body after cremation)
Context examples:
Thrust it into his pocket, most likely, never noticing that a corner of it had been left in the grip of the corpse.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pulsars were previously massive stars that exploded in powerful supernovae, leaving behind these small, dense stellar corpses.
(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)
Hans, still grasping the gun, felt sure that the Indian attributed to him the mangled corpses.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Even the lips were white, and the gums seemed to have shrunken back from the teeth, as we sometimes see in a corpse after a prolonged illness.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The scorching torrent was enough to wither the face of the corpse.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Astronomers have four theories to explain the baffling X-ray glow, three of which involve different classes of stellar corpses.
(NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars, NASA)
Apoptotic tumor cell corpses contain an array of tumor associated antigens (TAAs).
(Leukemic Apoptotic Corpse-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
I entered the room where the corpse lay and was led up to the coffin.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His grasp relaxed, his feet slipped, and in an instant he was a crushed and mangled corpse upon the sharp ridges beneath him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
