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mortuary

/mawr-choo-er-ee/US // ˈmɔr tʃuˌɛr i //UK // (ˈmɔːtʃʊərɪ) //

停尸房,殓房,停尸间,殡仪馆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mor·tu·ar·ies.

    • : funeral home.
    • : a customary gift formerly claimed by and due to the incumbent of a parish in England from the estate of a deceased parishioner.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the burial of the dead.
    • : pertaining to or connected with death.

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Examples

  • Well over 50 percent of mortuary school graduates are women now.

  • There’s like a “show me the long form birth certificate” version of my mortuary school degree.

  • Many mortuaries have had to turn away grieving families because they're at capacity, the owner of Los Angeles Funeral Service told ABC News.

  • Turns out my former mortuary polling place has lots of company.

  • Having spent 11 hours in cold storage, she began moving around within her body bag, where mortuary staff found her alive and well.

  • After fifteen minutes of CPR he is pronounced dead and taken to a mortuary, where attendants see him breathing.

  • Maddox served in Iraq as a mortuary affairs specialist during the 2004 siege of Fallujah.

  • A Stars Stripes article included a photo of the soldiers arriving at the port mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.

  • One “gallant old doctor” says he finds it unsuitable she is in a mortuary.

  • It lay in a rough wooden shell coffin, in a dark hole attached to an old city church, and used as a mortuary.

  • At the entrance to the graveyard is the lich-gate and mortuary, where many wrecked seamen were taken for burial.

  • It was the mortuary ground of these Indians that occupied the only level spot we could get for the block-house.

  • In the mortuary of a large hospital the scene presented was too horrible for detailed description.

  • In the mortuary chapel is a rudely carved and painted wooden statue of Haimon holding the dragon's tongue in his hand.