Corpse
Corpse noun - A dead body.
Usage example: the startling discovery of a corpse required a call to the police
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Remains
Remains noun - A dead body.
Usage example: archaeologists discovered the remains of an Incan woman and carefully excavated her burial site, which promised to yield important clues about her status
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How words are described
| human | human corpse | human remains |
| old | old corpse | old remains |
| dying | dying corpse | dying remains |
| original | original corpse | original remains |
| Other adjectives: many, dead, actual, real, buried, animated, new, mangled, mutilated, bloody, burned, last, skeletal, frozen, burnt, smoldering, smoking, charred, zombified, undead, eaten, dismembered, mummified, butchered. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Their consciousness remains inside their corpse, unless the body is completely destroyed, and all of their senses remain functional.
Source: Literature / Doom - Completely averted in Avencast: Rise of the Mage; despite wide-ranging backtracking and the many different enemy corpse types, every body remains exactly where it died.
Source: Everything Fades -
Beat Them at Their Own Game - See A Taste of Power Body Horror - The flying enemies in the Dead City level of Battle out of Hell and Dead Marsh level of Overdose are the up-turned remains of a human corpse's upper-half with dragonfly-like wings sprouting from the rib-cage.
Source: Video Game / Painkiller
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