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"body" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often corpse (6 letters).
Definitions
The physical form of a person or animal
Word origin
From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).
Used in a sentence
“I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.”
“The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.”
“Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues
01“Head-to-toe form”4 letters
02“Main section”4 letters
03“Main text section”4 letters
04“Physical form”4 letters
05“Torso and limbs”4 letters
06“Torso and limbs together”4 letters
07“Physical self”4 letters
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