Definitions for cadaver

cadaver ca·dav·er

Spelling: [kuh-dav-er]
IPA: /kəˈdæv ər/

Cadaver is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in cadaver (aacderv).

Definitions for cadaver

noun

  1. a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.

Origin of cadaver

1350-1400; Middle English Latin cadāver dead body, corpse; akin to cadere to fall, perish (see decay, chance)

Examples for cadaver

This had to be done before the cadaver was a cadaver, you see?

She had caught a rat, killed it, and laid the cadaver in the door.

A new study claims to have found the elusive spot in the cadaver of an 83-year-old woman.

For what seemed to Mary an interminable time, the cadaver clung to the polished steel.

I got up and looked at his cadaver a long time, then went to bed again.

They had taken a cadaver from the refrigerator and stood it in a certain position.

"Stand to one side and hold the cadaver's chin, Brion," she said.

cadaver dogs have been known to give “false positives,” but one study found them to be accurate more than 90 percent of the time.

Cremate the cadaver together with the board upon which it is fixed.

Reminded you, perhaps, of the faint odor of a cadaver far off?

Word Value for cadaver
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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