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Corps

The human body, whether living or dead.

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Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Containing group 1

Army 70% connected

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

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Division 70% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Anthropomorphist noun · 78% connection

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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Anthropomorphite noun · 78% connection

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

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Back noun · 78% connection

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body…

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Beat verb · 78% connection

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

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Being noun · 78% connection

That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing w…

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Biology noun · 78% connection

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…

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Cadaver noun · 78% connection

A dead human body; a corpse.

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Cadaverous adjective · 78% connection

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

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Carcass noun · 78% connection

A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

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Carrion noun · 78% connection

the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food

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Clay noun · 78% connection

Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

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Coffin noun · 78% connection

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

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Corpse noun · 78% connection

A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

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Corpus noun · 78% connection

A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

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Corse noun · 78% connection

A corpse; the dead body of a human being.

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Dead adjective · 78% connection

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

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Dirige noun · 78% connection

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first wo…

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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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