Morgue
noun
A place where bodies are kept, especially to be investigated or identified.
The body was moved to the city morgue for an autopsy.
Often appears as...
- city morgue
- hospital morgue
noun
A room or collection where old, historical newspapers or documents are kept.
Paula dug deep into the newspaper morgue to find the old articles.
Often appears as...
- newspaper morgue
- document morgue
noun
A place where bodies are kept, especially to be investigated or identified.
The body was moved to the city morgue for an autopsy.
Often appears as...
- city morgue
- hospital morgue
noun
A room or collection where old, historical newspapers or documents are kept.
Paula dug deep into the newspaper morgue to find the old articles.
Often appears as...
- newspaper morgue
- document morgue
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Grave Context
The word 'morgue' often relates to death and can give a somber tone to sentences.
After the accident, the morgue was sadly busy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Crime
'Morgue' isn't solely used in crime contexts; it's any facility holding the deceased for various reasons.
The hospital morgue also stores bodies for research.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Topic
When using 'morgue', be mindful that discussions involving death can be sensitive or upsetting to some.
He spoke in a low voice when mentioning the morgue.
Pro Tip 1/3Grave Context
The word 'morgue' often relates to death and can give a somber tone to sentences.
After the accident, the morgue was sadly busy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Crime
'Morgue' isn't solely used in crime contexts; it's any facility holding the deceased for various reasons.
The hospital morgue also stores bodies for research.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Topic
When using 'morgue', be mindful that discussions involving death can be sensitive or upsetting to some.
He spoke in a low voice when mentioning the morgue.
Pro Tip 1/3Grave Context
The word 'morgue' often relates to death and can give a somber tone to sentences.
After the accident, the morgue was sadly busy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Crime
'Morgue' isn't solely used in crime contexts; it's any facility holding the deceased for various reasons.
The hospital morgue also stores bodies for research.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Topic
When using 'morgue', be mindful that discussions involving death can be sensitive or upsetting to some.
He spoke in a low voice when mentioning the morgue.
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In the 19th Century,...
more commonly than the mothers who were giving birth in a nearby ward there was a big difference between these two wards in the first one doctors and medical students who spent part of the day in the morgue and the rest of the day in deliveries they were passing these germs
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Early forensics and...
of the corpse a cherry pink. In fact, people who see bodies after someone has died of a carbon monoxide death, they'll often talk about how healthy they look. So your poor, pale corpse could not have been killed by this gas. You take the body back to the morgue,
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How we're honoring...
So to start answering this question, I wanted to gather some information. I went down to the sub-sub-basement level of the New York Times Building, to the archives. We call it the morgue. And I asked for some guidance from our archivist there.
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The Arctic Story Hunter...
continue so i started working in the local newspapers and developing my film because there's not much places to develop i i was developing my film in in the darkroom in the morgue more because where you keep that dead
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My photographs bear...
A bedroom, the place where people share intimacy, where life itself is conceived, became a battlefield. A mosque in northern Bosnia was destroyed by Serbian artillery and was used as a makeshift morgue.
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Anastasia Taylor-Lind:...
Many were killed in a very short space of time. The reception of the Hotel Ukraine became a makeshift morgue. There were lines of bodies laid in the street. And there was blood all over the pavements.
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How the worst moments in...
My particular favorite was a blonde woman from the Deep South who eventually admitted to me that she was really a necrophiliac, and had taken this job after she got in trouble down at the morgue.
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Women Behind Bars PIPE...
the morgue before the woman that I found she stuck with the lifestyle the street life and the streets devoured her pretty much you know it's never good news coming down here if I find a match
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Break out of food...
seeing that happen I got tired of seeing young people young people winding up in the morgue young people riding up in the prison industrial complex which I call
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Let's design social...
handcuffed, blindfolded. I was terrified. So was my family, who started looking for me in hospitals, police stations and even morgues. After my disappearance,
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In the 19th Century,...
more commonly than the mothers who were giving birth in a nearby ward there was a big difference between these two wards in the first one doctors and medical students who spent part of the day in the morgue and the rest of the day in deliveries they were passing these germs
Video examples
Early forensics and...
of the corpse a cherry pink. In fact, people who see bodies after someone has died of a carbon monoxide death, they'll often talk about how healthy they look. So your poor, pale corpse could not have been killed by this gas. You take the body back to the morgue,
Video examples
How we're honoring...
So to start answering this question, I wanted to gather some information. I went down to the sub-sub-basement level of the New York Times Building, to the archives. We call it the morgue. And I asked for some guidance from our archivist there.
Video examples
The Arctic Story Hunter...
continue so i started working in the local newspapers and developing my film because there's not much places to develop i i was developing my film in in the darkroom in the morgue more because where you keep that dead
Video examples
My photographs bear...
A bedroom, the place where people share intimacy, where life itself is conceived, became a battlefield. A mosque in northern Bosnia was destroyed by Serbian artillery and was used as a makeshift morgue.
Video examples
Anastasia Taylor-Lind:...
Many were killed in a very short space of time. The reception of the Hotel Ukraine became a makeshift morgue. There were lines of bodies laid in the street. And there was blood all over the pavements.
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
My particular favorite was a blonde woman from the Deep South who eventually admitted to me that she was really a necrophiliac, and had taken this job after she got in trouble down at the morgue.
Video examples
Women Behind Bars PIPE...
the morgue before the woman that I found she stuck with the lifestyle the street life and the streets devoured her pretty much you know it's never good news coming down here if I find a match
Video examples
Break out of food...
seeing that happen I got tired of seeing young people young people winding up in the morgue young people riding up in the prison industrial complex which I call
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Let's design social...
handcuffed, blindfolded. I was terrified. So was my family, who started looking for me in hospitals, police stations and even morgues. After my disappearance,
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Quote examples
Rashad Evans
American Athlete
I had just graduated from Michigan State and I was working at a hospital. I was a security guard, I worked at night. Part of my job was putting bodies in the morgue and doing that kind of thing. I used to put bodies in the morgue and take them out. When I got done doing that at the hospital, in the morning I would work out before I went to sleep.
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Dustin Yellin
American Artist
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.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
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.
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Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish Director
Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.
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Beck
American Musician
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
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Pete Hamill
American Journalist
I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
Quote examples
Rashad Evans
American Athlete
I had just graduated from Michigan State and I was working at a hospital. I was a security guard, I worked at night. Part of my job was putting bodies in the morgue and doing that kind of thing. I used to put bodies in the morgue and take them out. When I got done doing that at the hospital, in the morning I would work out before I went to sleep.
Quote examples
Dustin Yellin
American Artist
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.
Quote examples
Dolly Parton
American Singer
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.
Quote examples
Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish Director
Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.
Quote examples
Beck
American Musician
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
Quote examples
Pete Hamill
American Journalist
I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
Quote examples
Jean Cocteau
French Director
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
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