DEAD BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dead body mean? 

• DEAD BODY (noun)
  The noun DEAD BODY has 1 sense:

1. a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

  Familiarity information: DEAD BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEAD BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

body; dead body

Context example:

they found the body in the lake

Hypernyms ("dead body" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

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

kill (the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal)

carcase; carcass (the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food)

carrion (the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food)

roadkill (the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle)

cadaver; clay; corpse; remains; stiff (the dead body of a human being)

mummy (a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt))

 Context examples 

Lymphocyte Harvest; remove lymphocytes from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation.

(Lymphocyte Harvest Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

And he pointed to the dead body under the flag.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The next thing heard of him was when his dead body was discovered by a plate-layer named Mason, just outside Aldgate Station on the Underground system in London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation.

(Harvest Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

What brought all his wicked scheme to wreck was your discovery of this man Heidegger’s dead body.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maple White passed Rosario four years ago, or two years before I saw his dead body.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not for the wide world will I consent to any mutilation of her dead body.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They mounted the stair in silence, and still with an occasional awestruck glance at the dead body, proceeded more thoroughly to examine the contents of the cabinet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

How many a time have we mourned over the dead body of Julius Caesar, and to be'd and not to be'd, in this very room, for his amusement?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"They got Bill, an' they may get me, but they'll sure never get you, young man," he said, addressing the dead body in its tree-sepulchre.

(White Fang, by Jack London)