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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.
- At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries.
- It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
- The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests.
- He was in charge of the clippings morgue at the newspaper.
- And the morgue fills with the stench of the unforgotten dead.
- The other is Mortuary, which presents the sanitary walls and gleaming metal surfaces of an unpeopled morgue.
- He had to go to the morgue to ID the body.
- Relatives of the dead headed to the city morgue for the grisly task of identifying their loved ones.
- And many weapon, pharma, security, and oil guys getting their large cuts of the billions that Bush spends on the war weekly; while we the ordinary people only get weekly bodybags of our friends and loved from Iraq getting fedexed down the morgue here. Think Progress » Concerns over Iran bombing grow.