Synonyms for corpse
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1. corpsenoun

   Synonyms:
   carcass, body, cadaver

2. corpseverb

   to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

   Synonyms:
   cadaver, carcass, body

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1. corpse

   Body denotes the entire physical structure, considered as a whole, of man or animal; form looks upon it as a thing of shape and outline, perhaps of beauty; frame regards it as supported by its bony framework; system views it as an assemblage of many related and harmonious organs. Body, form, frame, and system may be either dead or living; clay and dust are sometimes so used in religious or poetic style, tho ordinarily these words are used only of the dead. Corpse and remains are used only of the dead. Corpse is the plain technical word for a dead body still retaining its unity; remains may be used after any lapse of time; the latter is also the more refined and less ghastly term; as, friends are invited to view the remains. Carcass applies only to the body of an animal, or of a human being regarded with contempt and loathing. Compare COMPANY.

   Synonyms:
   ashes, body, carcass, clay, dust, form, frame, remains, system, trunk

   Antonyms:
   intellect, intelligence, mind, soul, spirit

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1. corpse

   Synonyms:
   carcass, remains, dust, clay

   Antonyms:
   soul, person, individual

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1. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remainsnoun

   the dead body of a human being

   "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

   Synonyms:
   the Great Compromiser, remains, stiff, cadaver, mud, clay

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1. • Dead Body

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1. corpsenoun

   Synonyms:
   CORSE, remains, CARCASS, dead body (of a human being)

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1. corpsenoun

   Synonyms:
   remains, relics, cadaver, carcass, mummy

   Associated words:
   cadaverous, cadaveric, necrophilism, necrophilous, carrion, necrophobia, necrogenic, necrogenous, necrotomy, necropsy, coffin, bier, catafalque, vespillo, cremate, cremation, crematory, crematorium, embalm, embalming

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1. List of paraphrases for "corpse":

   cadaver, body, corps, dead, stiff

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1. corpse

   Synonyms:
   Cadaver
   

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1. Jean Baudrillard:

   Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

2. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

   Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death.

3. Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971):

   We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

4. Aeschylus:

   O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

5. Norman Abjorensen:

   He's been badly wounded, probably mortally wounded, today has made him really a political corpse waiting to be cut down.