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Collocations for corpse - noun

ADJECTIVE

human
naked
bloody, charred, headless, mangled, mutilated
decaying, rotting
bloated
dead, lifeless
mummified
living, walking
For over a year he lay in his hospital bed, a living corpse.

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VERB + corpse

lay out
The corpse had been laid out on a marble slab.
discover, find
embalm
dismember, mutilate

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corpse + VERB

be sprawled, lie
They saw the corpse sprawled on the steps.

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PHRASES

be littered with corpses, be strewn with corpses
The ground was littered with the corpses of enemy soldiers.

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