morgue
/mɔrɡ/
noun
- A place where dead bodies are kept for identification or before burial.
- She worked as a technician in the hospital morgue.
- The detective went to the morgue to examine the victim.
- After the accident, the bodies were taken to the city morgue.
- A collection of reference materials, such as clippings or files, used by a newspaper or other organization.
- The library's morgue contained decades of photographs and clippings.
- He spent hours in the morgue researching the history of the building.
- The reporter checked the newspaper's morgue for old articles on the topic.
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