Thesaurus:corpse

Thesaurus

corpse

English

Noun

Sense: dead body

Synonyms

• anatomy (archaic)
• body    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cadaver
• carcass
• carrion
• corpse
• corse (obsolete)
• DB
• dog meat (idiomatic)
• dust (sometimes idiomatic)
• lich (archaic, UK, fiction, fantasy)
• offal
• relics
• reliquiae (Lat)
• remains
• stiff    [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
• worm food (idiomatic)

Hyponyms

• ashes
• corpsicle
• cremains
• floater
• fossil
• mummy
• whalefall

Meronyms

• bone
• carrion
• skeleton    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• ghost    [⇒ thesaurus]
• manes (archaic, plural only)
• shade
• spirit    [⇒ thesaurus]
• undead
• vampire
• zombie

Translations

• Japanese: Thesaurus:屍

See also

• Thesaurus:cemetery
• Thesaurus:death
• Thesaurus:interment

Further reading

• “362. corpse” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “corpse” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.