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Definition of morgue
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
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Examples of morgue in a Sentence
old news stories found in a newspaper morgue
Recent Examples of morgue from the Web
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As Japan Times’ Mizuho Aoki notes, these corpse hotels, known as itai hoteru in Japan, were invented as an alternative to sparse morgues where bodies were kept in impersonal cold storage.
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Outside a nightclub near Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, Broward Sheriff’s detectives paused as a man’s draped body was loaded into an SUV for a trip to the morgue.
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The body count is so overwhelming in Akron that the medical examiner's office had to call in a mobile morgue parked outside its building to help house victims.
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At the beach at San Hlan village, where fisherman brought in bodies Thursday to be sent by truck to a morgue, soldiers tasked with the recovery took shelter Friday in villagers’ homes from the heavy tropical downpour.
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But a funny, though not remotely unexpected thing, happened on the way to the morgue: The Rangers haven’t pronounced their playoff chances dead, not with more than 100 games remaining.
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Inside an Ohio morgue Monday lay the tiny body of one of the youngest victims of the opioid epidemic ravaging the state: an 18-month-old boy from Akron.
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By then Markham's body was being transported to the morgue.
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Another key dick scene takes place in a morgue—when the flaccid penis of a slain local councilman becomes the focal point of a shot, framed directly between Johnson and Efron.
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Origin and Etymology of morgue
French
MORGUE Defined for English Language Learners
morgue
playDefinition of morgue for English Language Learners
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: a place where the bodies of dead people are kept until they are buried or cremated
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: a place in the editorial offices of a newspaper, magazine, etc., where old articles and other documents are kept
Medical Dictionary
morgue
playMedical Definition of morgue
: a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
Law Dictionary
morgue
playLegal Definition of morgue
: 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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