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Noun cadaver has 1 sense
- cadaver(n = noun.body) clay, corpse, remains, stiff - the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" is a kind of body, dead body
has particulars: cremains
Derived forms adjective cadaveric1, adjective cadaverous2
CIDE DICTIONARY
cadaver, n. [L., fr cadere to fall.].
A dead human body; a corpse. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cadaver, n. esp. Med. a corpse.
Derivative
cadaveric adj.
Etymology
ME f. L f. cadere fall
THESAURUS
cadaver
ashes, body, bones, carcass, carrion, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, food for worms, late lamented, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, organic remains, relics, reliquiae, remains, skeleton, stiff, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved oneROGET THESAURUS
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Corpse
N corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones, defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay, mummy, carrion, food for worms, food for fishes, tenement of clay this mortal coil, shade, ghost, manes, organic remains, fossils, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied, sapromyiophyllous.
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