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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Corpse | Noun: 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And so, Theodore Donald Karabozoz, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The commissions are free to carry out exhumations and collect unburied mortal remains in territory under the authority of another majority ethnic group using an established notification system. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The Chamber found there was strong circumstantial evidence that Palic remained in detention after December 14, 1995. The Chamber ordered the RS to release Palic if he was still alive or make available his mortal remains and all information on his fate. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mortal remains | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MORTAL REMAINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lijkenpas (mortal remains certificate, pass for the transshipment of a dead body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maalliset jäännökset. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | dépouille mortelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | sterbliche überreste, gebeine (bones, relics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | földi maradványok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jenazah (remains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortalmay emainsray rãmãşiţe pãmânteşti (dust, relic). (various references) ceset (body, cadaver, carcase, carcass, corpse, dead body, necro-, stiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mane, maneque, manibus, manum, manumque, reliqua, reliqui, reliquis, reliquo, reliquorum, reliquum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-m-m-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: maternalism. | |
-3 letters: alienators, ammoniates, ironmaster, laminators, mainstream, monetarism, rationales, senatorial. | |
-4 letters: aerations, airstream, alienator, almonries, amitroles, ammoniate, ammonites, amoralism, anatomies, anatomise, animaters, animators, anomalies, antisolar, armaments, armorials, arterials, atonalism, emanators, immolates, immortals, laminates, laminator, maelstrom, marinates, marlstone, marmoreal, marmorean, materials, melanomas, melismata, memorials, mentalism, mestranol, mislearnt, mortmains, normalise, orientals, rainstorm, rationale, rationals, relations. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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