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From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
dead body
n : body of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the
lake" [syn: body]
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
dead body /dˈɛd bˈɒdi/
mrtvola
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
dead body /dˈɛd bˈɒdi/
mrtvola
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
dead body /dˈɛd bˈɒdi/
Leiche , Leichnam [poet.] [relig.]
"rob a dead body" - eine Leiche fleddern
Synonyms: body, corpse, cadaver, stiff
see: dead bodies, bodies, corpses, cadavers, stiffs, glacier body, glacier corpse, have a skeleton in the cupboard / closet, You look like death.
From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
dead body /dˈɛd bˈɒdi/
1. hulla
2. holttest
3. tetem
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) : [ bouvier ]
DEAD BODY, crim. law. A corpse.
2. To take up a dead body without lawful authority, even for the
purposes of dissection, is a misdemeanor, for which the offender may be
indicted at common law. 1 Russ. on Cr. 414; 1 Dowl. & R. 13; Russ. & Ry.
366, ii. b; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 35. This offence is punished by statute in New
Hampshire, Laws of N. H. 339, 340 in Vermont, Laws of Vermont, 368. c. 361;
in Massachusetts, stat. 1830, c. 51; 8 Pick. 370; 11 Pick. 350; in New York,
2 Rev. Stat. 688. Vide 1 Russ. 414, n. A.
3. The preventing a dead body from being buried, is also an indictable
offence. 2 T. R. 734; 4 East, 460; 1 Russ. on Cr. 415 and 416, note A.
4. To inter a dead body found in a river, it seems, would render the
offender liable to an indictment for a misdemeanor, unless he first sent for
the coroner. 1 Kenyon's R. 250.
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