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morgue
[ mawrg ]
noun
- a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- a reference file of old clippings, mats, books, etc., in a newspaper office.
- the room containing such a reference file.
- any place, as a room or file, where records, information, or objects are kept for unexpected but possible future use.
- such records, information, or objects.
morgue
1/ ³¾É”ËÉ¡ /
noun
- another word for mortuary
- informal.a room or file containing clippings, files, etc, used for reference in a newspaper
morgue
2/ ³¾É”°ùÉ¡ /
noun
- superiority; haughtiness
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of morgue1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of morgue1
Example Sentences
It is sent to a morgue where forensic tests will have to be conducted to confirm the identity.
Inside the morgue, others continued their desperate search, scanning rows of unclaimed corpses.
We had met Mr Abdel Habib at the hospital morgue the previous day, where he was picking up the bodies of his brother and sister-in-law.
He remembers the bumpy drive to a hospital morgue where he was asked to identify the bodies of his pregnant girlfriend, his cousin and a fellow anti-apartheid fighter.
When emergency crews recovered the body, it was highly decomposed and taken to a nearby morgue for examination.
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