morgue

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They can then send the patient off to the morgue and go play golf on the weekend.

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a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

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noun

a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for morgue.

noun

a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

Example sentences

They can then send the patient off to the morgue and go play golf on the weekend.

Perhaps he was thinking of the convenience of the morgue workers.

The joke about a knife fight is that the winner is in the hospital, the loser in the morgue.

Meanwhile others reporters are confirming that bodies are being recovered and sent to the morgue.

They took us in to see him one last time before he was sent to the morgue or wherever they take the bodies of those who die in the hospital.

What made it even worse is that everyone who died that day was taken to a makeshift morgue on Moorgate which is overlooked by the people who worked in his team.

I'd presume they have morgue facilities, given the negatively skewed age distribution, but no operating theatre?

I don't remember where I heard this, but one journalist/investigator compared crime reports with hospital admissions and bodies in the morgue.

Societies are relatively well-equipped to deal with these incidents: first responders come out, injured are taken to hospital, the dead go to the morgue, where they are buried in a routine fashion.