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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

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.2 / 5 votes

  1. corpse

    Synonyms:
    carcass, remains, dust, clay

    Antonyms:
    soul, person, individual

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. corpsenoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "corpse":

    cadaver, body, corps, dead, stiff

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. corpse

    Synonyms:
    Cadaver

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#136system
#368form
#570body
#1700dead
#1784frame
#3021remains
#4566dust
#4978clay
#5360corps
#5725trunk
#9024mud
#12588stiff
#13795ashes
#14814corpse
#29704carcass
#53084cadaver

How to use corpse in a sentence?

  1. Pallo Conteh:

    I am expecting more cases, we are sure that the body was washed ... so all those who took part in the washing of the corpse, all those who were helping her when she was having wet symptoms would all become infected.

  2. Professor Howe:

    Ptolemy stole Alexanders corpse, displaying it publicly, and establishing a link with the legendary figure of the age, during a pause in the wars between Alexanders successors over the tatters of his empire, Ptolemy began to build Alexandria as an eternal home for Alexander.

  3. 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.

  4. James Cagney:

    Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.

  5. 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.


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