cadavernoun [ C ]
uk/kəˈdæv.ər/us/-ɚ/specializeda dead human body
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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Examples from literature
- But lately a former millionaire died in a poorhouse and left his body as a cadaver for medical students.
- He is handed a case to experiment on, just as a medical student is handed a cadaver to dissect.
- It has been found in small numbers in the blood and tissues of yellow fever cadavers in a certain number of the cases examined.
- The cadaver is then exposed in the open air to the tender mercies of crows, foxes and wolves.
- They had taken a cadaver from the refrigerator and stood it in a certain position.