corpse
IPA: kˈɔrps
noun
- A dead body.
- (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
verb
- (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
- (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.
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Examples of "corpse" in Sentences
- He manages to reanimate a corpse.
- The men eviscerated the dead corpse.
- It says that the corpse was defiled.
- The great corpse continued to twitch.
- A cock is killed at the feet of the corpse.
- The mystery of the corpse intrigues the family.
- The waiter then counts the corpses in the picture.
- The very touch of his corpse served to resuscitate a dead man.
- In captivity, the newborn's corpse is taken away from the mother.
- He was pretended to be dead among the corpses of the perished soldiers.
- He discovered he could purloin parts from corpses and add them to his body.
- That was a dead man sprawling there -- what you call a corpse, a bleeding carcass.
- PS - I don't know what "Exquisite corpse" is and refuse to take time to even Google it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.