{
    "term": "corpse",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a dead body, especially of a human",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The corpse was barely recognizable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The corpse had been laid out on a marble slab."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ground was littered with the corpses of enemy soldiers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They saw the corpse sprawled on the steps."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We passed the desiccated corpse of a brigand hanging on a gibbet."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["human", "naked", "bloody"],
                "verb + corpse": ["lay out", "discover", "find"],
                "corpse + verb": ["be sprawled", "lie"],
                "phrases": ["be littered with corpses", "be strewn with corpses"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɔːps/",
                "audio": "co/corpse/corpse__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɔːrps/",
                "audio": "co/corpse/corpse__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting the living body of a person or animal): alteration of archaic corse by association with Latin corpus, a change which also took place in French (Old French cors becoming corps). The p was originally silent, as in French; the final e was rare before the 19th cent., but now distinguishes corpse from corps."
}