morgue

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morgue /mɔːɡ $ mɔːrɡ/ noun [countable]  1. MXa building or room, usually in a hospital, where dead bodies are kept until they are buried or cremated 停尸房，陈尸所，太平间 SYN mortuary2. be (like) a morgue to be a place that is very quiet or dull – used humorously 像太平间〔指某地方死气沉沉；幽默用法〕

Examples from the Corpus

morgue• So many people had left that the place was like a morgue.• The bodies were to be transferred to a morgue, where relatives could come and help identify them.• In the Huatulco morgue, the dead men remain unidentified, and their feet provide only cryptic clues about the rebels.• Hospital official Komaruddin Sukhemi said at least 51 bodies had been brought to the local morgue.• Whatever Deborah would deserve, that morgue was not the place for her.• The detailed burial party will then convey the body to the morgue for subsequent burial.• A body wrapped in a plastic bag is loaded on to a lorry and taken off to the morgue.Origin morgue (1800-1900) French Morgue, name of a morgue in Paris

morgue nounChinese  

building a room, a usually Corpus or in

morgue
morgue /mɔːɡ $ mɔːrɡ/ noun [countable]1. a building or room, usually in a hospital, where dead bodies are kept until they are buried or cremated
   SYN  mortuary
2. be (like) a morgue to be a place that is very quiet or dull – used humorously

morgueBrE /mɔːɡ/ 🔊NAmE /mɔːrɡ/ 🔊 nouna building in which dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated(= burned) 停尸房；太平间  ➡  compare mortuary

ashes, cemetery, coffin, cremation, die, funeral, grave1, hearse, morgue, mourn

a place where dead bodies that have been found are kept until they can be identified （供辨认尸首的）陈尸所