Synonyms:
morgue, mortuary, dead_room
Meaning: a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Usage examples
"The rest will have to be at the morgue.
The men from the morgue had the body raised in the air.
Better 'phone the morgue keeper," he went on, "and have them come for the body."
Caderousse's knife, dark lantern, bunch of keys, and clothing, excepting the waistcoat, which could not be found, were deposited at the registry; the corpse was conveyed to the morgue.
In the early morning, when the fire reached the municipal building on Portsmouth Square, the nurses, with the aid of soldiers, got out fifty bodies which were in the temporary morgue and a number of patients from the receiving hospital. Just after they reached the street with their gruesome charge a building was blown up, and the flying bricks and splinters came falling upon them.