morgue.

1. A place where dead bodies are kept temporarily, often for identification or examination.

2. A collection of past news material, photographs, or other records kept for reference.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• hospital morgue
• body in a morgue

On the page

The investigator waited outside the morgue.

The hospital morgue occupied the lower floor.

The report recorded when the body reached the morgue.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular morgue; plural morgues. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.