cadaver

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noundead body

Synonyms for cadaver

noun dead body

Antonyms for cadaver

being

carcases

noun. dead body; framework, base structure

carcass/carcase

noun. dead body; framework, base structure

Word Origin & History

c.1500, from Latin cadaver "dead body (of men or animals)," probably from a perfective participle of cadere "to fall, sink, settle down, decline, perish" (see case (n.1)). Cf. Greek ptoma "dead body," literally "a fall" (see ptomaine); poetic English the fallen "those who died in battle."

Example Sentences for cadaver

They had taken a cadaver from the refrigerator and stood it in a certain position.

Cremate the cadaver together with the board upon which it is fixed.

"Stand to one side and hold the cadaver's chin, Brion," she said.

She had caught a rat, killed it, and laid the cadaver in the door.

Reminded you, perhaps, of the faint odor of a cadaver far off?

This had to be done before the cadaver was a cadaver, you see?

I got up and looked at his cadaver a long time, then went to bed again.

For what seemed to Mary an interminable time, the cadaver clung to the polished steel.

"Cussed ef the cadaver o' Bill Budge didn't speak," the first man cried.

The most unnatural and quite the most despicable being the throwing into the Tiber by Cæsar Borgia the cadaver of his brother.

cadaver

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