Concept cluster: Physical processes > Corpse
n
A corpse.
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The number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially of those killed.
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A human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
v
(usually with "up") To study.
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The slightest shred of some personal characteristic (specified with a preceding adjective).
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A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
adj
Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
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The body of a dead human, a corpse.
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(chiefly uncountable) Dead flesh; carcasses.
adj
Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
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(obsolete) Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed.
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The conservation of a resource.
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A behaviour, where, when given a choice, an individual animal will choose a food source which requires effort to obtain instead of that which requires little to no effort.
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A dead body.
v
(online gaming) To wait by a player's corpse to target them when they respawn, or when, after respawning elsewhere, they return to reclaim their equipment back from their corpse.
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A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.
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(online gaming) The act of doing this.
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(humorous) A person or other living creature that is expected to die soon.
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(slang, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A necrophile.
adj
Resembling a corpse.
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An actor who corpses.
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(literary) An irregular plural of corpse, used to indicate an uneducated speaker.
adj
Characteristic of or associated with a corpse.
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Resembling a corpse; resembling that of a corpse.
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(archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
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Pertaining to the act of cremating bodies.
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(art) A conventional subject in art, literature and drama, or a particular work in that style, in which death (in the form of a putrid corpse, skeleton, the Grim Reaper, etc) is shown leading people to the grave.
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A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.
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Synonym of death row
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A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death.
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The section of a prison which houses those inmates who are sentenced to death.
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An official warrant that authorizes capital punishment.
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A human skull, as symbol of death.
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Alternative spelling of deathbed [The bed on which someone dies.]
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(nonstandard, kenning) coffin
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Alternative form of death camp [A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die for various reasons, such as starvation, disease, brutality and neglect.]
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The provision of products and services for the burial or cremation of the dead.
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(slang) A decomposed body.
adj
(mathematics, computing) From which orphans have been removed
n
A sentence or image created as a result of this game.
adj
Of or relating to a funeral.
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Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
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(medicine, dated) A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
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(dated) One who keens at a funeral.
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(religion) Final treatment of a dead man.
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(UK dialectal) A dead body; corpse.
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Obsolete form of lich (“a corpse”). [(archaic, UK) A corpse or dead body.]
adj
Obsolete spelling of mausolean [Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.]
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An emblematic object or personal ornament, such as a skull, used as a reminder of one's mortality.
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(archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a morgue.
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Of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
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Obsolete form of mummy. (embalmed corpse) [(countable) An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.]
adj
Preserved, for a dead body, by mummification.
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(countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films.
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A dead body; carrion.
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What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
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(ecology) Large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas.
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(intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
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Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
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(idiomatic) A reminder of death, a memento mori.
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Of or relating to tombs.
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Resembling or characteristic of an undertaker (funeral director).
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Resembling or characteristic of an undertaker (funeral director).
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(in the singular) The world, a place where difficulties and the sorrows of life are felt, especially (Christianity) as a place to be left behind when one dies and goes to heaven.
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(informal) Synonym of Cotard's syndrome

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