corpse

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corpse /kɔːps $ kɔːrps/ ●●○ noun [countable]  MXDEADthe dead body of a person 〔人的〕尸体 SYN body The corpse was found by children playing in the woods. 这具尸体是在林子里玩耍的孩子发现的。

Examples from the Corpus

corpse• It is in these brasses that one discovers the three different ways of positioning the arms of a corpse.• Brief peace settled over Ulthuan, like the shroud over a corpse.• The streets were filled with the stench of decaying corpses.• For a year or more Menelik had lain in the palace, a living corpse, paralysed and speechless.• Everything that could be smashed had been, but we found no corpses.• They often made presents of their relatives' corpses to whites.• Tubs, their ribs opening, held the corpses of camellias, their desperation for water manifest.• Nilsen was finally arrested when pieces of the corpses he was flushing down the toilet blocked the drain.• Thieves are digging up corpses in order to steal jewellery and gold teeth.• This was sublime ridiculousness, to give away a blood-soiled shirt to a walking corpse.Origin corpse (1300-1400) French corps; → CORPS

corpse nounChinese  

of the a dead Corpus person body

corpse
corpse /kɔːps $ kɔːrps/ noun [countable]the dead body of a person
   SYN  body:
    The corpse was found by children playing in the woods.
     

THESAURUS

■ a dead body
   ▪ body noun [countable] the dead body of a person: Her body was discovered at the bottom of a cliff. | Firefighters found the body of a woman in the house.
   ▪ corpse noun [countable] the dead body of a person. Corpse is is used when you are thinking about the body as an object rather than a person: Pathologists examined the corpse.
   ▪ carcass noun [countable] the dead body of an animal: a whale carcass | The carcasses of the infected animals were burned.
   ▪ remains noun [plural] parts of a dead person or animal, especially when they died a long time ago: Police found human remains under the floorboards of the house.

corpseBrE /kɔːps/ 🔊NAmE /kɔːrps/ 🔊 nouna dead body, especially of a human 尸体；（尤指人的）死尸，尸首