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corpsehood

corpsehood noun: death, quality of being dead.

Noun

corpsehood (uncountable)

  1. death, quality of being dead
    • ... your victim is headed for corpsehood right fast.”2012, Tina Whittle, Darker Than Any Shadow, Head of Zeus, →ISBN
    • ... is called in to confirm that the murder victim has indeed achieved corpsehood.2010, Guy M. Townsend, The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 6) November 1977, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 23

Examples of corpsehood in a sentence

  • When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.2012, Brian Norman, Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature, JHU Press, →ISBN:
  • Nevertheless, bones are mostly what endures after the early phases of corpsehood.2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 139:
  • The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded.2011, Al Roker, Dick Lochte, The Talk Show Murders: A Billy Blessing Novel, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 265:
  • You're far too close to corpsehood to clean up your act now.2023 October 13, Macy Anne Johnson (dub), Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, spoken by Frieren (Mallorie Rodak):

Origin of corpsehood

From corpse + -hood.

Questions about corpsehood

What does corpsehood mean?
Corpsehood means death, quality of being dead.
How do you use corpsehood in a sentence?
When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.
What part of speech is corpsehood?
Corpsehood is a noun.

Words near corpsehood in the dictionary

  1. corpse-reviver
  2. corpse-to-be
  3. corpsed
  4. corpsefucker
  5. corpsefuckers
  6. corpsehood
  7. corpseless
  8. corpselike
  9. corpsepaint
  10. corpser
  11. corpsers

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