Corpses

/ˈkɔrpsɪz/ noun

dead bodies of human beings.

From Latin 'corpus' meaning body. The same root gives us 'corporation' (a legal body), 'corps' (a body of soldiers), and 'corpse' originally just meant 'body' before becoming specifically a dead one.

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