corpse
noun/kɔːps/
/kɔːrps/
- a dead body, especially of a human
- The corpse was barely recognizable.
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesc2- The corpse had been laid out on a marble slab.
- The ground was littered with the corpses of enemy soldiers.
- They saw the corpse sprawled on the steps.
- We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- human
- naked
- bloody
- …
- lay out
- discover
- find
- …
- be sprawled
- lie
- be littered with corpses
- be strewn with corpses
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting the living body of a person or animal): alteration of archaic corse by association with Latin corpus, a change which also took place in French (Old French cors becoming corps). The p was originally silent, as in French; the final e was rare before the 19th cent., but now distinguishes corpse from corps.
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