Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A living body; the physical frame of an animal, especially of a human being.
- n. A dead body, especially, and usually, of a human being: originally with the epithet dead expressed or implied in the context.
- n. Eccles., the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office in England is endowed.
- n. Synonyms Remains, corse (poetic).
- To make a corpse of; murder.
- To ‘put out’ or confuse (an actor) in speaking his lines or to spoil (his ‘business’) by some blunder or mistake.
Wiktionary
- n. a dead body
- v. intransitive, slang to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
- n. The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the dead body of a human being
Etymologies
- From Latin corpus ("body") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English corps, from Latin corpus; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term corpse-run does sounds like a penalty while, IMO, item-recovery sounds a gameplay that is an added dimesion of a particular MMORPG.”
“All the Windwracked Stars started with Muire finding a corpse is an alley, which is now the start of chapter two, while chapter one is a different time and place alltogether -- well, you'll see soon enough.”
“That was a dead man sprawling there -- what you call a corpse, a bleeding carcass.”
“I'm not sure I can make a connection between dragging a corpse, any corpse (and I think you'll find that "corpse" is fairly universally accepted as the body of a human, with "carcass" referring to the body of an animal) and tossing a fish.”
“In captivity, the newborn's corpse is taken away from the mother.”
“She is a beautiful maiden seen from one side and a rotten corpse from the other, may we all get to face the good side of Her Face.”
“PS - I don't know what "Exquisite corpse" is and refuse to take time to even Google it.”
“Mainstream media: killing the past p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: - Because everyone with an online account has the potential to become his or her own news and information procurer and disseminator, “the corporate press corpse is panicking, trying to figure out a way to stay relevant,” I said in a post on Saturday.”
“A story about a determined boy (an abacus champion, of all things, and thalidomide baby) given new hands from a corpse is similarly full of contradictory points.”
“Fresh from blissing out in corpse pose, I blurted, It's August.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corpse’.
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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life, death, rebirth
vale of tears, aborning, transmigration, reincarnate, nativity, nascence, metempsychosis, palingenesis, againrising, psychopannychism, thnetopsychism, shuffle off this ... and 104 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Absolutely Nothing
Them's fightin' words.
george s. patton, huh. good god, y'..., i love the smell ..., never a good war ..., all the arms we n..., fighting for peac..., agent orange, give peace a chance, make love, not war, let slip the dogs..., the pen is mighti..., operation overlord and 58 more...
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[Open] Frequently confused and misused
Words that are often used to mean something other than what they mean to lexicographers.
apprehensible, immanent, eminent, seamen, venal, venial, brassiere, brassier, brasserie, brazier, brasier, elegy and 38 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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NATO
New Acronyms To Ogle
Existing words, new acronyms.
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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dirtysnowflake's Words
snowflake, parisian, couture, mystery, ruby, clandestine, corset, october, list, touch, caress, aboulia and 156 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for corpse.
knitandpurl I'd never heard this as a verb, I don't think! As in:
"Maureen emerged from behind the counter in her short black dress and frilly apron, and Shirley corpsed into her coffee."
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling, p 351 Jan 9, 2013
gcastro heard it on a fbi investigation that cops found a corpse. Oct 31, 2010
vanishedone As a verb: 'The conceit of death by laughter is a curious one and not restricted to the ancient world. Anthony Trollope, for example, is reputed to have “corpsed�? during a reading of F. Anstey’s comic novel Vice Versa.' Feb 19, 2009
frindley Code Outputting Resources for Programmed Service Engineering
another wonderful acronym courtesy of elgiad007 on idiots Nov 12, 2008
Prolagus I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
Before I would stand with another boy in front of me
And a corpse that just fell into me, with the bullets flying round.
(I fought in a war, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 24, 2008