cadaver Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the dead body of a human being
    remains; clay; corpse; stiff.
    • 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

WordNet


Ca*da"ver noun
Etymology
L., fr cadere to fall.
Definitions
  1. A dead human body; a corpse.

Webster 1913