corpse
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
corpse/kɔːps/
▶noun a dead body, especially of a human. ▶verb theatrical slang spoil a piece of acting by forgetting one's lines or laughing uncontrollably.
'corpse' also found in these Oxford entries:
ayahuasca
- bier
- body
- body bag
- cadaver
- cadaverous
- cerecloth
- cerement
- committal
- corpse candle
- corse
- dead man's fingers
- embalm
- exhume
- flex
- funeral
- funeral pyre
- grave
- inhumation
- inter
- interment
- layer-out
- narwhal
- necro-
- ptomaine
- pyre
- sky burial
- vampire
- zombie

