Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CORPSE

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Definitions of CORPSE

1. A dead body.
2. (archaic, sometimes, derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
3. (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
4. (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.

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Examples of Using CORPSE in a Sentence

• It is not possible to reanimate a corpse that has undergone vitrification, as that damages the brain, including its neural circuits.
• The band rose to mainstream success in 1992 with their second album Legion, and is credited as the second-best-selling death metal band of the Soundscan Era, after Cannibal Corpse.
• A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.
• The rotting corpse of Formosus was exhumed and put on trial, before an unwilling synod of the Roman clergy, in the so-called Cadaver Synod in January 897.
• The Tollund Man (died 405–384 BCE) is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 5th century BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
• A common example of an undead being is a corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased's own life force or that of a supernatural being (such as a demon, or other evil spirits).
• After the execution of a death sentence, the corpse could be hanged on a tree to advertise the fact and deter others.
• Suffering from an inflammation of the eyes, he travels in a closed litter in which soldiers find his decaying corpse.
• Forensic pathology is pathology that focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse.
• Exquisite corpse (from the original French term , literally exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.
• Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial.
• In Norse mythology, Náströnd ("Corpse Shore") is a place in Hel where Níðhöggr lives and chews on corpses.
• One legend tells that Dakodonou's original name was Dako but he adopted his new name Dakodonou after killing Donou (who was either a farmer or an indigo painter) in a pot of indigo and rolling his corpse around its blue tomb.
• She is the first to find his corpse, which she promptly covers with her own clothing to prevent further heartache.
• Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1988, now based out of Tampa, Florida.
• Baron Samedi is usually depicted with a top hat, black tail coat, dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in the Haitian style.
• A shootout between the mob and union members followed; SCU member Ralph Gray was murdered, his home burned, and his burned corpse was dumped on the courthouse steps.
• On May 2, 1919 a crowd of three hundred white farmers shot to death and burned the corpse of a black farmer, Benny Richards, who was accused of murdering his own ex-wife.
• In 1897, Walford gained national attention when the general store burned down, leaving a charred corpse; since two men were missing, news stories about the identity of the corpse and the hunt for the survivor made the headlines for weeks.
• The route remembers the many corpses carried over the moors on old coffin routes and the ancient burial mounds encountered on the way; the name derives from a lyke, the corpse and the wake - watching over the deceased.
• Since December 2003, the reconstructed corpse has been added to the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden.
• Due to the influence of Hong Kong cinema, it is typically depicted in modern popular culture as a stiff corpse dressed in official garments from the Qing dynasty.
• In the Middle Ages it was the habit to carry the corpse, fully dressed, on top of the coffin at royal funerals, but this sometimes had unfortunate consequences in hot weather, and the custom of making an effigy in wax for this role grew, again wearing actual clothes so that only the head and hands needed wax models.
• It is one of the recognizable signs of death, characterized by stiffening of the limbs of the corpse caused by chemical changes in the muscles postmortem (mainly calcium).
• These bone boxes were placed in smaller niches of the burial caves, on the benches used for the desiccation of the corpse, or even on the floor.

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