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US
/ˈmɔɹɡ/
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[ UK /mˈɔːɡ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːɡ/ ]
NOUN
- a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
How To Use morgue In A Sentence
- A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.
- There has been the constant battle to gain access to the pre-Internet newspaper clip morgues of papers, some of which long ago went out of business.
- That's Jorge Grau, director of the cannibal zombie classic The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue... kind of apposite because this was at the annual Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, where the two of us helped out with the presentation work for more years than I care to count. The Living Dead at the Manchester Festival
- When the sisters' father went to the morgue to check, he found his daughter had not only been killed, but her body had been horrifically mutilated.
- It's a good thing, too, because the morgue is pretty much overrun by this point - and our protagonists are trying to fight their way out. After Sundown
- However, they refused to outline the cause of the deaths until the State Pathologist examined the bodies, which were last night at the morgue in the General Hospital.
- SAS troopers also spend about a week in a morgue, observing post-mortem examinations to develop an understanding of anatomy.
- This beautiful chateau had gone from a boarding house to a morgue in just one day.
- For some reason, he had crossed his home address off his passport, so his body went unidentified in the city morgue for three days.
- Imagine a clinical, morgue-like room, all stainless steel and green rubber sheets.