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morgue

Noun

Meaning

A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say. Václav Havel

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue. Terry Pratchett

Want to come back to the morgue with me after lunch? (Tate) I shudder at the thought of the pickup line you must have used the night you met LaShonda. Come with me, baby, and see my collection of stiffs. (Simone) Sherrilyn Kenyon

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. Dolly Parton

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you. Dustin Yellin

A body wrapped in plastic is prepared to be loaded onto a refrigerated container truck used as a temporary morgue by medical workers due to COVID-19 concerns, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at Brooklyn Hospital Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Source: Internet

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