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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of corpse.

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Examples

  • I 'corpsed' , and my Deputy had to take over while I left the meeting to recover.

    Corpsing. Glyn Davies 2008

  • So I sympathise with Charlotte Green, who 'corpsed' this week on the Today programme and had to be rescued by James Naughtie over something not very funny at all.

    Corpsing. Glyn Davies 2008

  • We have a civilized Government and civilized leaders who never would like to see our people "corpsed", as a recent dignitary announced.

    Yemen RSS News Feed - Yemen Times 2009

  • 'corpsed', as Sadiq Al-Ahmar said a few days back, as he announced his pledge to aid the Government forces against tribesmen who were once under his father's custody.

    Yemen RSS News Feed - Yemen Times 2009

  • So unmemorable is it that on press night fine actor Jim Norton corpsed and twice shouted "line"—which was delivered over my shoulder by a prompter in the audience.

    A Vapid 'Veil' but a Happy 'Marriage' Paul Levy 2011

  • Anne corpsed twice, cracked up by the bawdy nature of his innuendo and out the other.

    Archive 2008-05-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • Anne corpsed twice, cracked up by the bawdy nature of his innuendo and out the other.

    Pure jam: winning The Weakest Link DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • I was nervous at the start, and I corpsed like mad as soon as they all laughed at the first visual joke start with the easy laugh: a reference to an otherwise unknown Anglo-Saxon comic strip about "a field-dwelling cat who does not relish the end of the Sabbath" then showing the slide of the Bayeux Tapestry with Garfield, er, Gar-feld photoshopped in.

    Pseudo Society, Film Stars and Too Much Work K. A. Laity 2007

  • Greek's corpsed, and them graduate woters will flock to its funeral yet.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various

  • A lucky wound's got to drop on him from the sky, otherwise he's corpsed.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

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