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Word entry · 6 letters

corpse

Best crossword clue

"Body"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /kɔːps/Part of speech nounSorted ceoprsStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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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