corpses

Noun

corpse (plural corpses)

1. A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
   • I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, […]1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
2. The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.
   • Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430
3. (archaic, derogatory, sometimes) A human body in general, whether living or dead.

   Synonyms:

   bod, body, bones, flesh, carcass, likam, quarrons, soma

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