morgue

/mɔrɡ/ or /mɔrɡuː/

Definitions

1. noun

A building or room where dead bodies are kept for examination or identification, especially by a coroner or pathologist.

“The police took the body to the morgue for autopsy.”

2. noun

A person or a place that is associated with death or the dead.

“The morgue in the old mansion was said to be haunted.”

3. verb

To cause a person or a part of a machine to die or become ineffective.

“The software morgue due to a critical error.”

Synonyms

  • mortuaries
  • mortuary

Antonyms

  • mortuaries
  • mortuary