dead body
What morgues store
A dead body is a corpse—the physical remains of a person or animal after death.
The phrase is slightly redundant, since body alone often implies death in context, but dead body emphasizes the lifelessness: Police found a dead body in the alley.
The term appears frequently in crime reporting and legal contexts.
- cadaverBody for dissection
- corpseDeceased human body
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- toe tagPostmortem identification marker
- coronerPublic death investigator
funeral · decomposition · homicide · foul play · crime of passion · autopsy · cause of death · postmortem · burial · shallow grave · tomb · six feet under · morgue · stiff · crime scene · embalming · rigor mortis · John Doe
- thriller tropesplot twist, red herring, cliffhanger, whodunit, femme fatale
- Among Usimpostor, crewmate, sus, vent, emergency meeting
- Motorcycle Trickswheelie, stoppie, backflip, superman, no-hander
- bit partsextra, walk-on, bit player, background actor, cameo
- bodyflesh, skin, bones, muscle, bone
vitality/life status
dead bodyliving being
Organism that's alive
survivor · warm body · living soul · the quick · sentient being