Definition of morgue in English:

morgue

noun mɔːɡmɔrɡ

1A mortuary.
the cadavers were bagged and removed to the city morgue
Example sentencesExamples
- For some reason, he had crossed his home address off his passport, so his body went unidentified in the city morgue for three days.
- A post-mortem was carried out at the city morgue after the body parts were removed from the Royal Canal.
- The local hospitals and morgues have only 8 bodies, all civilians.
- Relatives of the dead headed to the city morgue for the grisly task of identifying their loved ones.
- Postmortems on bodies are usually carried out in Dublin in the city morgue, or nationwide in hospital mortuaries.
- But mostly, they end up cold and lifeless in morgues.
- SAS troopers also spend about a week in a morgue, observing post-mortem examinations to develop an understanding of anatomy.
- It was impossible to independently verify the death toll, but the hospital morgue was so full yesterday that five corpses had been laid outside under blankets.
- However, they refused to outline the cause of the deaths until the State Pathologist examined the bodies, which were last night at the morgue in the General Hospital.
- On the way to the morgue, a police officer heard the man gasp for air and they immediately took him to the emergency unit at the nearest hospital.
- The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests.
- Shortly after that, his body was taken to the city morgue for autopsy.
- His body lay unrecognised in the city morgue for three days.
- The body was then exhumed and taken to the city morgue in Marino where a post-mortem was carried out.
- At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries.
- Medical samples such as human tissue, blood, and other bodily fluids, are taken from the morgue to the laboratory to be tested.
- Her body had already been taken to the morgue at the hospital.
- Dozens of family members wandered desperately between hospitals and morgues where they looked over badly burned bodies.
- They offered to pay $4,325 toward the funeral in addition to the casket and transportation to the morgue.
- I also needed to visit the morgue to check out the dead woman again.
Synonyms
mortuary, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home
British chapel of rest
archaic charnel house, dead house, lych-house
1. 1.1 Used in reference to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold.
  she put us in that draughty morgue of a sitting room
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘But it amounts to a morgue,’ Jen quietly agreed, shivering slightly at the reduced temperatures in the small room.
  This beautiful chateau had gone from a boarding house to a morgue in just one day.
2informal A newspaper's collection of miscellaneous information for use in future obituaries.
a full-time obituaries editor in charge of the morgue
Example sentencesExamples
- He was in charge of the clippings morgue at the newspaper.
- Newspapers keep a "morgue" to provide writers and editors with a reference collection of information, opinion, and images for future news reporting, feature writing, and opinion pieces.
- Frank then heads to the local newspaper to visit their morgue.
- In the 1940s the News began using photographs in the paper, and, consequently building its morgue
- There has been the constant battle to gain access to the pre-Internet newspaper clip morgues of papers, some of which long ago went out of business.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.

mortuary from Late Middle English:
In the Middle Ages a mortuary was a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate. The word derives from Latin mortuus ‘dead’, the source also of mortgage (Late Middle English), literally a ‘dead pledge’ because the debt dies when the pledge is redeemed; and mortify (Late Middle English) ‘deaden’, and related to murder. The current sense, ‘a room or building in which dead bodies are kept’, dates from the mid 19th century. In Paris the bodies of people found dead formerly were taken to a building at the eastern end of the Île de la Cité, where they were kept until identified. It was called the Morgue (from a French word for haughtiness or sad expression). By the 1830s morgue was being used in English for other mortuaries; the parallel use of French morgue is not recorded until the 1940s and was borrowed back from English.

Rhymes

Borg

Definition of morgue in US English:

morgue

nounmôrɡmɔrɡ

1A place where bodies are kept, especially to be identified or claimed.
the cadavers were bagged and removed to the city morgue
Example sentencesExamples
- Relatives of the dead headed to the city morgue for the grisly task of identifying their loved ones.
- The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests.
- The local hospitals and morgues have only 8 bodies, all civilians.
- Dozens of family members wandered desperately between hospitals and morgues where they looked over badly burned bodies.
- It was impossible to independently verify the death toll, but the hospital morgue was so full yesterday that five corpses had been laid outside under blankets.
- At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries.
- On the way to the morgue, a police officer heard the man gasp for air and they immediately took him to the emergency unit at the nearest hospital.
- However, they refused to outline the cause of the deaths until the State Pathologist examined the bodies, which were last night at the morgue in the General Hospital.
- They offered to pay $4,325 toward the funeral in addition to the casket and transportation to the morgue.
- But mostly, they end up cold and lifeless in morgues.
- The body was then exhumed and taken to the city morgue in Marino where a post-mortem was carried out.
- Postmortems on bodies are usually carried out in Dublin in the city morgue, or nationwide in hospital mortuaries.
- Medical samples such as human tissue, blood, and other bodily fluids, are taken from the morgue to the laboratory to be tested.
- A post-mortem was carried out at the city morgue after the body parts were removed from the Royal Canal.
- For some reason, he had crossed his home address off his passport, so his body went unidentified in the city morgue for three days.
- His body lay unrecognised in the city morgue for three days.
- Her body had already been taken to the morgue at the hospital.
- I also needed to visit the morgue to check out the dead woman again.
- Shortly after that, his body was taken to the city morgue for autopsy.
- SAS troopers also spend about a week in a morgue, observing post-mortem examinations to develop an understanding of anatomy.
Synonyms
mortuary, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home
1. 1.1 Used metaphorically to refer to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold.
  she put us in that drafty morgue of a sitting room
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘But it amounts to a morgue,’ Jen quietly agreed, shivering slightly at the reduced temperatures in the small room.
  This beautiful chateau had gone from a boarding house to a morgue in just one day.
2informal In a newspaper office, a collection of old cuttings, photographs, and information.
conducting research in either a news morgue or a library
Example sentencesExamples
- In the 1940s the News began using photographs in the paper, and, consequently building its morgue
- Newspapers keep a "morgue" to provide writers and editors with a reference collection of information, opinion, and images for future news reporting, feature writing, and opinion pieces.
- There has been the constant battle to gain access to the pre-Internet newspaper clip morgues of papers, some of which long ago went out of business.
- He was in charge of the clippings morgue at the newspaper.
- Frank then heads to the local newspaper to visit their morgue.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.

单词	morgue
释义	Definition of morgue in English: morgue noun mɔːɡmɔrɡ 1A mortuary. the cadavers were bagged and removed to the city morgue Example sentencesExamples For some reason, he had crossed his home address off his passport, so his body went unidentified in the city morgue for three days. A post-mortem was carried out at the city morgue after the body parts were removed from the Royal Canal. The local hospitals and morgues have only 8 bodies, all civilians. Relatives of the dead headed to the city morgue for the grisly task of identifying their loved ones. Postmortems on bodies are usually carried out in Dublin in the city morgue, or nationwide in hospital mortuaries. But mostly, they end up cold and lifeless in morgues. SAS troopers also spend about a week in a morgue, observing post-mortem examinations to develop an understanding of anatomy. It was impossible to independently verify the death toll, but the hospital morgue was so full yesterday that five corpses had been laid outside under blankets. However, they refused to outline the cause of the deaths until the State Pathologist examined the bodies, which were last night at the morgue in the General Hospital. On the way to the morgue, a police officer heard the man gasp for air and they immediately took him to the emergency unit at the nearest hospital. The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests. Shortly after that, his body was taken to the city morgue for autopsy. His body lay unrecognised in the city morgue for three days. The body was then exhumed and taken to the city morgue in Marino where a post-mortem was carried out. At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries. Medical samples such as human tissue, blood, and other bodily fluids, are taken from the morgue to the laboratory to be tested. Her body had already been taken to the morgue at the hospital. Dozens of family members wandered desperately between hospitals and morgues where they looked over badly burned bodies. They offered to pay $4,325 toward the funeral in addition to the casket and transportation to the morgue. I also needed to visit the morgue to check out the dead woman again. Synonyms mortuary, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home British chapel of rest archaic charnel house, dead house, lych-house 1.1 Used in reference to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold. she put us in that draughty morgue of a sitting room Example sentencesExamples ‘But it amounts to a morgue,’ Jen quietly agreed, shivering slightly at the reduced temperatures in the small room. This beautiful chateau had gone from a boarding house to a morgue in just one day. 2informal A newspaper's collection of miscellaneous information for use in future obituaries. a full-time obituaries editor in charge of the morgue Example sentencesExamples He was in charge of the clippings morgue at the newspaper. Newspapers keep a "morgue" to provide writers and editors with a reference collection of information, opinion, and images for future news reporting, feature writing, and opinion pieces. Frank then heads to the local newspaper to visit their morgue. In the 1940s the News began using photographs in the paper, and, consequently building its morgue There has been the constant battle to gain access to the pre-Internet newspaper clip morgues of papers, some of which long ago went out of business. Origin Early 19th century: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified. mortuary from Late Middle English: In the Middle Ages a mortuary was a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate. The word derives from Latin mortuus ‘dead’, the source also of mortgage (Late Middle English), literally a ‘dead pledge’ because the debt dies when the pledge is redeemed; and mortify (Late Middle English) ‘deaden’, and related to murder. The current sense, ‘a room or building in which dead bodies are kept’, dates from the mid 19th century. In Paris the bodies of people found dead formerly were taken to a building at the eastern end of the Île de la Cité, where they were kept until identified. It was called the Morgue (from a French word for haughtiness or sad expression). By the 1830s morgue was being used in English for other mortuaries; the parallel use of French morgue is not recorded until the 1940s and was borrowed back from English. Rhymes Borg Definition of morgue in US English: morgue nounmôrɡmɔrɡ 1A place where bodies are kept, especially to be identified or claimed. the cadavers were bagged and removed to the city morgue Example sentencesExamples Relatives of the dead headed to the city morgue for the grisly task of identifying their loved ones. The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests. The local hospitals and morgues have only 8 bodies, all civilians. Dozens of family members wandered desperately between hospitals and morgues where they looked over badly burned bodies. It was impossible to independently verify the death toll, but the hospital morgue was so full yesterday that five corpses had been laid outside under blankets. At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries. On the way to the morgue, a police officer heard the man gasp for air and they immediately took him to the emergency unit at the nearest hospital. However, they refused to outline the cause of the deaths until the State Pathologist examined the bodies, which were last night at the morgue in the General Hospital. They offered to pay $4,325 toward the funeral in addition to the casket and transportation to the morgue. But mostly, they end up cold and lifeless in morgues. The body was then exhumed and taken to the city morgue in Marino where a post-mortem was carried out. Postmortems on bodies are usually carried out in Dublin in the city morgue, or nationwide in hospital mortuaries. Medical samples such as human tissue, blood, and other bodily fluids, are taken from the morgue to the laboratory to be tested. A post-mortem was carried out at the city morgue after the body parts were removed from the Royal Canal. For some reason, he had crossed his home address off his passport, so his body went unidentified in the city morgue for three days. His body lay unrecognised in the city morgue for three days. Her body had already been taken to the morgue at the hospital. I also needed to visit the morgue to check out the dead woman again. Shortly after that, his body was taken to the city morgue for autopsy. SAS troopers also spend about a week in a morgue, observing post-mortem examinations to develop an understanding of anatomy. Synonyms mortuary, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home 1.1 Used metaphorically to refer to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold. she put us in that drafty morgue of a sitting room Example sentencesExamples ‘But it amounts to a morgue,’ Jen quietly agreed, shivering slightly at the reduced temperatures in the small room. This beautiful chateau had gone from a boarding house to a morgue in just one day. 2informal In a newspaper office, a collection of old cuttings, photographs, and information. conducting research in either a news morgue or a library Example sentencesExamples In the 1940s the News began using photographs in the paper, and, consequently building its morgue Newspapers keep a "morgue" to provide writers and editors with a reference collection of information, opinion, and images for future news reporting, feature writing, and opinion pieces. There has been the constant battle to gain access to the pre-Internet newspaper clip morgues of papers, some of which long ago went out of business. He was in charge of the clippings morgue at the newspaper. Frank then heads to the local newspaper to visit their morgue. Origin Early 19th century: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.
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