1
: a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
2
: a collection of reference works and files of reference material in a newspaper or news periodical office
Examples of morgue in a Sentence
old news stories found in a newspaper morgue
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Proponents of the tax increase ran a digital ad showing a toe tag on the feet of a body on a slab in the morgue.
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Susan Shelley, Daily News, 10 June 2026
Around that time, a body was moved out of a local morgue, and a coffin was burned.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
Where the movie’s true eccentricity comes in is in its combination of breezy comedy with shocking brutality and gore, perhaps most exemplified in an oddly casual moment in a morgue where Seagal and Wayans find a clue in the form of a serial number on a dead woman’s breast implant.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 5 June 2026
The bodies of the deceased have since been taken to the Denizli Group Presidency of the Forensic Medicine Institute morgue for an autopsy, per TRT Haber.
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
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Susan Shelley, Daily News, 10 June 2026
Around that time, a body was moved out of a local morgue, and a coffin was burned.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
Where the movie’s true eccentricity comes in is in its combination of breezy comedy with shocking brutality and gore, perhaps most exemplified in an oddly casual moment in a morgue where Seagal and Wayans find a clue in the form of a serial number on a dead woman’s breast implant.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 5 June 2026
The bodies of the deceased have since been taken to the Denizli Group Presidency of the Forensic Medicine Institute morgue for an autopsy, per TRT Haber.
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
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“Morgue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morgue. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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morgue
noun1
: a place where the bodies of the dead are kept temporarily until they are identified or released for burial
2
: a department of a newspaper where reference material is filed
Medical Definition
morgue
noun
: a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
Legal Definition
morgue
noun
: a place where the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed by relatives or released for burial or autopsy
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