1. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains -- (the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay")
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The stale cadaver blocks up the passage--the burial waits no longer. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman