Synonyms for Mortuary
ˈmɔr tʃuˌɛr imor·tu·a·ry

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1. morgue, mortuary, dead roomadjective

   a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

   Synonyms:
   mortuary, morgue, dead room

2. mortuaryadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of death

3. mortuaryadjective

   of or relating to a funeral

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1. mortuarynoun

   Synonyms:
   cemetery, graveyard, churchyard, burial-place, necropolis, burial ground, city of the dead

2. mortuaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   of the dead

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1. List of paraphrases for "mortuary":

   morgue, funeral, funerary, burial, undertaker

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1. Elisabeth Hildebrand:

   By constructing the mortuary cavity, people created a shared space where community members could be placed all together, without any sign of certain individuals being given primacy.

2. Ram Kishan Yadav:

   These body parts were to be shifted to the district hospital mortuary, but we don't know how they have since been kept here in the police station, an investigation is still ongoing.

3. Julius Mucunguzi:

   There are wards which were completely washed away. The mortuary was swept away. You wouldn't know that once upon a time there was a mortuary there. The drugs and drug stores were washed away.

4. Cal Potter:

   They were devastated three days later when they went to the mortuary and learned that Carlos had ... multiple gunshot wounds to his face and upper body.

5. Andre Strauss:

   This ritualized decapitation attests to the early sophistication of mortuary rituals among hunter-gatherers in the Americas, geographically, it expands the known range of decapitation in more than 2,000 kilometers (about 1,240 miles), showing that during the early Holocene, this was not a phenomenon restricted to the western part of the continent as previously assumed.