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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
corpse
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
carry
▪ Patients were dying by the hundreds, but there was nobody to carry away the corpses.
▪ A bell sounded in the church at Gushibov, either calling Gentiles to Mass or because they were carrying out a corpse.
▪ One of the men with sticks came over and carried his corpse away.
▪ That said, our witnessing of a four-hundred-year-old tree carried like a corpse along the highway troubles him, too.
find
▪ A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter, 12, by the creek.
▪ They find a corpse in the tub with a gun alongside him.
▪ If you send men into the forest you will find her frozen corpse in that cave she called her home.
▪ Everything that could be smashed had been, but we found no corpses.
▪ The shock of finding the corpse had made him forget to shave.
▪ Every morning, when l opened my door, I found five or six corpses on the step.
▪ After we'd found the corpses of the assassins.
▪ When I passed the place again, half an hour afterwards, I found him a corpse.
lie
▪ The corpse still lay sheeted on the bed.
▪ The corpses lay there for several days in the rain.
▪ The corpse lay on the ground, arms and legs detached from the body.
▪ Twisted, blackened corpses lie side-by-side on a cold-looking concrete floor.
▪ When I used to read to you in bed you must have thought that Coleridge's mummified corpse was lying between us.
▪ Its corpse lay at her feet, slowly sinking into the moss and mud.
▪ Only his corpse lying on its back, a knife plunged into its heart.
▪ The corpse of a man lay there: red-haired, red-bearded, face long and marble-white.
see
▪ Then we were by the counter and through the glass I saw a feathered corpse, twisted to show its plumpness.
▪ Now here is a happening that illustrates my meaning: I believe it was in Rostov that I saw my first corpses.
▪ You saw the corpse, Sir John, and the chamber?
▪ He opened his mouth to speak, but saw the corpse stretched before him and shut it.
▪ You know, Clerk, I have seen many a corpse.
▪ I saw the corpses of eight, photographed some of them.
▪ I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The streets were filled with the stench of decaying corpses.
▪ Thieves are digging up corpses in order to steal jewellery and gold teeth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brief peace settled over Ulthuan, like the shroud over a corpse.
▪ Everything that could be smashed had been, but we found no corpses.
▪ For a year or more Menelik had lain in the palace, a living corpse, paralysed and speechless.
▪ It is in these brasses that one discovers the three different ways of positioning the arms of a corpse.
▪ Nilsen was finally arrested when pieces of the corpses he was flushing down the toilet blocked the drain.
▪ They often made presents of their relatives' corpses to whites.
▪ This was sublime ridiculousness, to give away a blood-soiled shirt to a walking corpse.
▪ Tubs, their ribs opening, held the corpses of camellias, their desperation for water manifest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corpse

Corpse \Corpse\ (k[^o]rps), n. [OF. cors (sometimes written corps), F. corps, L. corpus; akin to AS. hrif womb. See Midriff, and cf. Corse, Corselet, Corps, Cuerpo.]

  1. A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously. [Obs.]

    Note: Formerly written (after the French form) corps. See Corps, n., 1.

  2. The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. --D. Webster. Corpse candle.

    1. A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment.

    2. A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.

      Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corpse

1540s, variant spelling of corps (q.v.). The -p- originally was silent, as in French, and with some speakers still is. The terminal -e was rare before 19c. Corpse-candle is attested from 1690s.

Wiktionary
corpse

alt. 1 A dead body. 2 (context archaic sometimes derogatory English) A human body in general, whether living or dead. n. 1 A dead body. 2 (context archaic sometimes derogatory English) A human body in general, whether living or dead. vb. (context intransitive slang of an actor English) To lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably.

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WordNet
corpse

n. the dead body of a human being [syn: cadaver, stiff, clay, remains]

Wikipedia
Corpse (disambiguation)

A corpse is a dead human body.

Corpse may also refer to:

  • The Corpse, a black ops group within the Green Lantern Corps
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Usage examples of "corpse".

Perhaps it was merely a reaction from the slaughter in the streets of Addis Ababa, or the memory of the corpses of the sons of the abuna with their eyeballs hanging on their cheeks and their inunature genitals stuffed into their mouths, but over the next few days the desire to see his son became an obsession.

At least half of them were mush-skinned Abaddon corpses, walking dead.

Miyuki screamed, her CPR forgotten as the corpse knocked over the tall stool with a crash that was all but entirely muffled by the thrashing of the creature in the next room.

That particular corpse unexpectedly provided the first proof that Haluk allomorphism was being erased by unauthorized genen therapy.

Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.

Thus amongst the Angoni of British Central Africa the corpses of chiefs are burned with all their household belongings, but the bodies of commoners are buried with all their belongings in caves.

Among the mounds of corpses individual Ansar were feigning death, poised to leap on any unwary victim.

The quick, tense voice stated that the corpse of Fred-derick Meelays had been found that morning on the Via Appia Antica, and that Signor Mee-lays had visited him at some time yesterday, was that not so?

The Asturian arrows arched overhead like a slithering rainbow, and the Murgos quite literally melted off their half-completed bridges to fill the river with floating corpses.

Then I saw the mother sitting next to the pathetic little corpse, weeping and moaning as she rocked back and forth in anguish.

His boots slipped midway in fluids spewed from the corpse, and he bounced down the remainder of the steps on his buttocks, backplate, and helmet.

They stepped over corpses that lay facedown in the snow with wounds in their backs, and around overturned wagons and coaches and dead horses and dead dogs.

They had carried his corpse from the battleground, and were preparing to honour him.

Circumstantial evidence was against him, for The Shadow stood armed, a trespasser on the Beaverwood property, and above him, grinning in macabre glee, was the tilted corpse impaled upon the gate spikes, flinging down a silent accusation.

Similarly the Hottentots, Bechuanas, Basutos, Marotse, Barongo, and many other tribes of South and West Africa never carry a corpse out by the door of the hut but always by a special opening made in the wall.