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Corpse Dead Word Body Crime Kɔːrps Man Reported

Front corpse
Pron [kɔːrps]
Back 【CORPSE】
A man has reported to the police that he saw a corpse under the bridge.
有个人向警方报告说他在桥下看到一具尸体。
【重点词汇】
corpse n. 尸体
Vocab
corpsethe dead body of a human being

Another name for a dead body is corpse. You might hear it on TV crime shows, but a corpse doesn't have to be a crime victim, just any lifeless body.

The words corpse and "corps" are often confused, and with good reason — both came from the Latin word corpus, meaning "body," and up until the 19th Century, both referred to a dead person. Around that time, the word with the "e" at the end was established as the word for a person's remains, while the other spelling was relegated to a "body" of people working together or in a military division, and very much alive!

All forms of 'corpse' will appear on average once every 481 pages.
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