What part of speech is corpse?

Corpse can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. corpse is a noun, singular of corpses.

Inflections

Noun

What does corpse mean?

Definitions

Verb

corpse - To lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably.

Noun

corpse - the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Examples of corpse

#   Sentence  
1. noun The end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse.
2. noun Hisao's face was as pale as that of a corpse.
3. noun This thing is not a bear. It is the corpse of a bear.
4. noun The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.
5. noun Leaving an unburied corpse behind is profanity.
6. noun Digging up a corpse is profanity.
7. noun Every man is a potential corpse.
8. noun Every man is potentially a corpse.
9. noun I can't touch the corpse without gloves.
10. noun There are no signs of trauma on Tom's corpse.
11. noun No one knows whose corpse that was nor where it came from.
12. noun A bear will not touch a corpse.
13. noun The corpse has a gunshot wound in the chest.
14. noun Seeing all the worms wriggling on the corpse made me squirm all over.
15. noun Tom bent over Mary's corpse.
Sentence  
noun
The end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse.
Hisao's face was as pale as that of a corpse.
This thing is not a bear. It is the corpse of a bear.
The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.
Leaving an unburied corpse behind is profanity.
Digging up a corpse is profanity.
Every man is a potential corpse.
Every man is potentially a corpse.
I can't touch the corpse without gloves.
There are no signs of trauma on Tom's corpse.
No one knows whose corpse that was nor where it came from.
A bear will not touch a corpse.
The corpse has a gunshot wound in the chest.
Seeing all the worms wriggling on the corpse made me squirm all over.
Tom bent over Mary's corpse.

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