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cadaverous
English
Etymology
cadaver +? -ous
Adjective
cadaverous (comparative more cadaverous, superlative most cadaverous)
- Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
- 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
- Dark blood flowed in the fosse,
- Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead ...
- 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cadaverous
Translations
See also
- cadaverously
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corpse
English
Alternative forms
- corse (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Displaced native Old English l?? (whence modern English word lich). The ?p? was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while playing a dead body.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??ps/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??ps/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?ko?ps/
- Rhymes: -??(?)ps
Noun
corpse (plural corpses)
- A dead body.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:corpse
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:corpse.
- (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:body
Related terms
Translations
Verb
corpse (third-person singular simple present corpses, present participle corpsing, simple past and past participle corpsed)
- (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
- (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.
Anagrams
- Cosper, Crespo, Pecors, copers, corpes, scoper
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