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Meanings of morgues in English

Russian
морг
Portuguese
morgue
Spanish
morgue
Catalan
dipòsit de cadàvers
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Place for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification or burial.

морг
Usage of morgues in English
1
Children are often in the crossfire, sent to hospitals or to morgues.
Ebony
2
Hospital staff said there were still bodies arriving at morgues in Kano.
The Irish Times
3
Army tanks and armored vehicles joined police patrolling near hospitals and morgues.
The Guardian
4
I kept being told, nobody wants to read about laboratories or morgues.
The Guardian
5
They say morgues are full beyond capacity and have ordered immediate cremations.
Radio NZ
6
Funeral homes are only authorized to transport bodies from morgues to cemeteries.
Reuters
7
As quickly as bodies were found they were taken to temporary morgues.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Torna...
8
Scores turned up in Egypt's morgues, shot or bearing signs of torture.
The Guardian
9
Hospitals were overwhelmed and makeshift morgues were built outside health facilities.
Radio NZ
10
Weeping relatives in hospitals and morgues heaped criticism on the deeply unpopular government.
Reuters
11
Seamen tell of what they see: their reports are interred in scientific morgues.
The Book of the Damned
12
The airline passengers, they went to morgues in all five boroughs?
The strain
13
But I know how you feel; I 'm just that queer about morgues.
The Seventh Noon
14
For a time the street was lined with trucks operating as makeshift morgues.
The Irish Times
15
State newspaper al-Ahram said 36 bodies had arrived at hospital morgues in Alexandria province.
Reuters
16
Hospitals and morgues struggled to cope with injured and bewildered victims and bloated corpses.
Reuters
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