morgue

noun

\ ˈmȯrg

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

Examples of morgue in a Sentence

old news stories found in a newspaper morgue

Recent Examples on the Web Still containing an original hanging tree, the building was at turns a morgue and bordello, and (unbeknownst to its owners) housed the remains of 15-18 people under its floorboards until it was refurbished in the 1980s. — Shelby Knick, Forbes, 19 May 2021 And the pace has only sped up recently: last year 245 total homicide victims were wheeled to the morgue, a city record. — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2021 The county has installed a fourth mobile morgue unit in the medical examiner’s parking lot. — Silvia Foster-frau, ExpressNews.com, 3 Nov. 2020 To deal with the casualties, NGHS resorted this weekto bringing in a mobile morgue in Gainesville. — Carrie Teegardin, ajc, 22 Jan. 2021 At Mercy Hospital Springfield in Missouri, a mobile morgue that was acquired in 2011 after a tornado ripped through nearby Joplin and killed about 160 people has been put into use again. — Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020 The Odessa hospitals, Saravanan said, are working with city officials to request a mobile morgue. — Omar Jimenez, CNN, 19 Nov. 2020 In El Paso, local officials have deployed 10 mobile morgue trailers to handle a backlog of corpses. — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2020 In Wisconsin and Utah, officials are building field hospitals, while El Paso has built a fourth mobile morgue. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2020

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