corpse

Pluralcorpses

Formscorpses, corpsing, corpsed

1. 1
   dead personnouncountable

   A dead body, usually of a person and not an animal.

   The police found a corpse floating in the river.

   Doctors examine a corpse to find out how the person died.

   Similarbody, cadaver

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2. 2
   dead animalnouncountable

   The dead body of an animal, such as a bird, a fish, or a dog.

   We found the corpse of a small bird under the kitchen window.

   Flies buzzed around the corpses of rats in the old barn.

   Similarcarcass, body

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3. 3
   laugh on stageverbslangintransitive

   Of an actor, to start laughing during a show and not be able to stop.

   Try not to corpse when the dog walks onto the stage.

   He corpsed when his fake mustache fell off in the middle of the play.

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4. 4
   laugh on stageverbslangtransitive

   Of an actor, to make another actor laugh so hard during a show that they cannot stop.

   He tried to corpse me by pulling a silly face during the sad scene.

   She corpsed the whole cast with one funny line on the last night.

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