CORPSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corpse mean? 

• CORPSE (noun)
  The noun CORPSE has 1 sense:

1. the dead body of a human being

  Familiarity information: CORPSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dead body of a human being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cadaver; clay; corpse; remains; stiff

Context example:

honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay

Hypernyms ("corpse" is a kind of...):

body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corpse"):

cremains (the remains of a dead body after cremation)

 Context examples 

The pictures have allowed astronomers to identify an elusive stellar corpse buried among filaments of gas left behind by a 2000-year-old supernova explosion.

(Dead Star Circled by Light, ESO)

A cell-based cancer vaccine composed of autologous dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with corpses of apoptotic leukemic cells, with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Leukemic Apoptotic Corpse-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

The energy from this corpse of a star is enough to power the gamma-ray luminosity we are seeing.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

I still recoiled at the dread of seeing a corpse.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Rob a corpse of a shroud—anything.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The dyeing of the corpse’s hair must have been one of the most significant parts of the ritual.

(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)

She was very earnest to see the corpse.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At times he would come back in triumph, and a dozen corpses swinging from the summit of his keep would warn evil-doers that there was still a law in the land.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a huge man, as you can testify, for you have looked upon his corpse.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This man, he began, nodding feebly at the corpse —O'Brien were his name, a rank Irelander—this man and me got the canvas on her, meaning for to sail her back.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)