CORPSE


Meaning of CORPSE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ human

▪ naked

▪ bloody , charred , headless , mangled , mutilated

▪ decaying , rotting

▪ bloated

▪ dead , lifeless

▪ mummified

▪ living , walking

For over a year he lay in his hospital bed, a living ~.

VERB + CORPSE

▪ lay out

The ~ had been laid out on a marble slab.

▪ discover , find

▪ embalm

▪ dismember , mutilate

CORPSE + VERB

▪ be sprawled , lie

They saw the ~ sprawled on the steps.

PHRASES

▪ be littered with ~s , be strewn with ~s

The ground was littered with the ~s of enemy soldiers.

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