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mortuary
[ mawr-choo-er-ee ]
noun
- a customary gift formerly claimed by and due to the incumbent of a parish in England from the estate of a deceased parishioner.
adjective
- of or relating to the burial of the dead.
- pertaining to or connected with death.
mortuary
/ ˈ³¾É”˳Ùʃʊə°ùɪ /
noun
- Also calledmorgue a building where dead bodies are kept before cremation or burial
adjective
- of or relating to death or burial
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è°ù±ð·³¾´Ç°ùt³Ü·²¹°ùy adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mortuary1
Example Sentences
Bodies covered in white sheets were also taken to the hospital's mortuary.
"Is this the truce they are talking about?" he told Reuters news agency as he stood beside her body at a mortuary.
They began by looking at where a person had been staying, the beach they were recovered from and where they were in the mortuary.
The scale of Wendy's injuries meant they were not able to visit the mortuary to say goodbye.
Savile's work as an entertainer with the BBC and his charitable efforts gave him unsupervised entry to sensitive areas like hospital wards, schools and mortuaries, where he abused vulnerable people.
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