1
: a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
2
: a collection of reference works and files of reference material in a newspaper or news periodical office
Examples of morgue in a Sentence
old news stories found in a newspaper morgue
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However, only nine of those names matched with records of the dead from the hospital morgue.
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Sam Mednick, TIME, 8 June 2024
Later in the day, The Associated Press reported different numbers, saying at least 33 people died, including three women and nine children, citing the hospital morgue.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 6 June 2024
At the hospital morgue, NPR documented one body bag labeled as containing the body parts of five children.
—Anas Baba, NPR, 6 June 2024
Hospitals and morgues overflowed, and more than one million people may have died.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2023
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Sam Mednick, TIME, 8 June 2024
Later in the day, The Associated Press reported different numbers, saying at least 33 people died, including three women and nine children, citing the hospital morgue.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 6 June 2024
At the hospital morgue, NPR documented one body bag labeled as containing the body parts of five children.
—Anas Baba, NPR, 6 June 2024
Hospitals and morgues overflowed, and more than one million people may have died.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2023
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morgue
noun1
: a place where the bodies of the dead are kept temporarily until they are identified or released for burial
2
: a department of a newspaper where reference material is filed
Medical Definition
morgue
noun
: a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
Legal Definition
morgue
noun
: a place where the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed by relatives or released for burial or autopsy
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