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Etymology

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FromMiddle English, from earliercorse, fromOld Frenchcors, fromLatincorpus(“body”).

Displaced nativeEnglishlikam andEnglishlich. The ⟨p⟩ was inserted due to the original Latin spelling.Doublet ofcorps,corpus, andriff. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while acting as dead body.

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Noun

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corpse (pluralcorpses)

  2. Adeadbody, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:corpse
    • 1865,Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, inSequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
      I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, / And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, / I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,[…]
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:corpse.
  3. (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:body

Usage notes

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In idiomatic usage, the dead body of a nonhuman animal is called acarcass whereas the dead body of a human is called acorpse.

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Translations

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dead body

Verb

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corpse (third-person singular simple presentcorpses,present participlecorpsing,simple past and past participlecorpsed)

  1. (intransitive, slang, of an actor) Tolaughuncontrollably during aperformance.
    • 1989,Kenneth Branagh,Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus,→ISBN,page94:
      The rest of the day and the week were spent blocking and learning the lines. The only drama was the predictable one of being ticked off forcorpsing. Rupert was quite as bad as me when it came to giggling and the tea-party scene which took place between Rupert, David Parfitt, Piers Flint-Shipman and I, was too much.
    • 1993, John Banville,Ghosts:
      There were still moments when she would halt suddenly, like an actor stranded in the middle of the stage, lines forgotten, staring goggle-eyed and making fish-mouths...Corpsing: that was the word.
    • 1993, Bevan Amberhill,The Bloody Man‎[1], Mercury Press,→ISBN:
      PoorDamiancorpsed and almost forgot his next lines. The director gave him a terrific lecture, and Alan caught hell from stage management.
  2. (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.

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