postmortem
IPA: poʊstmˈɔrtɛm
noun
- Alternative spelling of post mortem [An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.]
adjective
- Alternative spelling of post mortem [Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.]
post-mortem
IPA: poʊstmˈɔrtɛm
noun
- Alternative spelling of post mortem. [An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.]
adjective
- Alternative spelling of post mortem. [Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.]
post mortem
IPA: pˈoʊstmɔrtʌm
noun
- An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
- (figuratively, management) Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
- (Britain, university slang, obsolete) At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.
adjective
- Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.
adverb
- Occurring after death.
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Examples of "post-mortem" in Sentences
- The post-mortem was that it was that it was a little too much.
- Tastefully done, just so long as there's not a series of Rick Rubin-produced Ted Stevens post-mortem albums in the works.
- (My apologies to the true believers who would claim that Jesus, being God, was destined to the "post-mortem" greatness he achieved).
- "We believe all three dogs were involved in the attack, but they have to have a necropsy done" to determine that as part of the investigation, Officer Schneider said, referring to a post-mortem examination of the dogs.
- When the pig had wheezed its last breath, one man singed off its hair with a blowtorch, another gave it what I can only describe as a post-mortem enema, and its owner, a middle-aged man with a thick mustache, began to butcher it.
- "I am aware of reports suggesting this death is the result of a suspected drugs overdose, but would like to re-emphasize that no post-mortem has yet been done and that it would be inappropriate to speculate on the cause of death," Metropolitan Police Superintendent Raj Kohli said.
- The final essential in any 50-over England team, where the captain is still required to affect an air of teeth-gritting enthusiasm, conducting his resentful post-mortem TV interviews with all the unaffected ease of Prince Charles in jeans and a blazer being forced to clap along on a balcony to Duran Duran.
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