morgue
noun/mɔːɡ/
/mɔːrɡ/
- a building in which dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated (= burned)
- They found his body lying in the city morgue.
- This place is like a morgue!
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- a place where dead bodies that have been found are kept until they can be identified
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.
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