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Corpse vs Corpes - What's the difference?

corpse | corpes |

As nouns the difference between corpse and corpes

is that corpse is a dead body while corpes is .

As a verb corpse

is (intransitive|slang|of an actor) to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably.

corpse

English

Alternative forms

* corse (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dead body.
  • (archaic, sometimes, derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
  • Synonyms

    * body * cadaver * carcass * See also

    Verb

    (corps)
  • (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably.
  • Anagrams

    *

    corpes

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Rome is no more: but if the shade of Rome May of the bodie yeeld a seeming sight, It's like a corse drawne forth out of the tombe By magicke skill out of eternall night: The corpes of Rome in ashes is entombed, And her great spirite, reioyned to the spirite Of this great masse, is in the same enwombed; But her brave writings, which, her famous merite In spight of Time out of the dust doth reare, Doo make her idole* through the world appeare. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And he spake unto her and said, Behold here is one that will enterprise to watch the corpes of your husband this night. }}