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Meanings of corpse in English

Portuguese
cadáver
Catalan
cos
Spanish
muerto
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The dead body of a human being.

        cadáver
        Usage of corpse in English
        1
        The word corpse is no longer used, or even body, but patient.
        The new yorker
        2
        He dug the graves, and laid the corpse in the kindly soil.
        Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
        3
        No; Jacqueline was staring at Pettifer's corpse, asking the question of him.
        Complete Books of Blood
        4
        Later her charred corpse was found at the power substation outside Ystad.
        Firewall
        5
        His master died before reaching home; they need slippers for the corpse.
        The death of ivan ilyich: and, master and man
        6
        Finally we gave it up and threw the corpse in the lake.
        Under the Andes
        7
        Not a day passes, not a minute or second without a corpse.
        Leaves of Grass
        8
        With Samuel's agreement, Parsons asked Stapleton to help him examine the corpse.
        The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
        9
        The corpse of Dasima floated and entangled in the bathing-place of William.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914
        10
        The first motion of the carriage affected the position of the corpse.
        A Love Story
        11
        In doing this, the professor noted the peculiar appearance of the corpse.
        The Golden Fleece: A Romance
        12
        In the yard lay the keeper of the horses, a stiffened corpse.
        Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman / Embracing ...
        13
        The mystery therefore continues, as does the identity of my roadside corpse.
        The Guardian
        14
        The next witness proved the finding of the knife near the corpse.
        The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
        15
        By this time, she is aware of the nature of the corpse.
        Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
        16
        Elsewhere soldiers danced by the corpse of a dead Islamic State fighter.
        Reuters
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