Definitions
the dead body of a human being
Word origin
From Middle English, from earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”).
Used in a sentence
“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]”
“Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.”
“Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.”
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