corpse
/koɹps/ verb C2- To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
- To cause another actor to do this.
He/she/it corpses · Past corpsed · Past participle corpsed · -ing form corpsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- corpse
- He/she/it
- corpses
- Past
- corpsed
- Past participle
- corpsed
- -ing form
- corpsing
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“Yes, but they have found a corpse; the general has been killed, and in all countries they call that a murder.”
Tell them—oh, tell them, that corpse belongs to me!”
Dantès looked in fear and wonder at the livid countenance of Faria, whose eyes, already dull and sunken, were surrounded by purple circles, while his lips were white as those of a corpse, and his very hair seemed to stand on end.
When I become quite motionless, cold, and rigid as a corpse, then, and not before,—be careful about this,—force open my teeth with the knife, pour from eight to ten drops of the liquor contained in the phial down my throat, and I may perhaps revive.”
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