Definitions for morgues

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Spelling: [mawrg]

IPA: /mɔrg/

Morgues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in morgues (egmorsu).

Definitions for morgues

noun

1. a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
2. a reference file of old clippings, mats, books, etc., in a newspaper office.
3. the room containing such a reference file.
4. any place, as a room or file, where records, information, or objects are kept for unexpected but possible future use.
5. such records, information, or objects.

Origin of morgues

1815-25; French; name of building in Paris housing unidentified dead bodies

Examples for morgues

Afterwards, the bodies were taken to the morgue to positively identify them.

He said he had been commanded to grab every journalist showing up at the morgue.

Who would have thought of public fickleness even at the morgue?

In London it is located in the Duveen Gallery where half the extant marbles sit under white light as if in a morgue.

Laurent understood that he had taken too long a look at Camille at the morgue.

I went back to the morgue and made some inquiries of the attendant there.

So far, the mystery man in the morgue has not been identified, and neither has Mr. Douli.

The next day, on entering the morgue, he received a violent shock in the chest.

Another incident, in January, involved a Kenyan man, Paul Mutora, who woke up in the morgue 15 hours after being pronounced dead.

This building was later converted into a hospital and morgue.