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to say ' seeking the dead person's corpse'? what other way can i put it? like, better way?

2007-04-03 08:52:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

im tryin to say someone is lookin for a body but i need it in better vacabulary

2007-04-03 08:53:08 · update #1

14 answers

seeking the corpse

cause a corpse is a dead person

2007-04-03 08:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

'discover the cadavre (or cadaver if you're American)' (I like that one, it's got lots of cs and ds), 'ascertain the whereabouts of the deceased' (if you want to sound really intelligent), 'find the body' is fine. The only little problem with seeking the dead person's corpse is that it's unnecessary to point out that the body of the dead person is a corpse - so you could say 'seeking the corpse' or 'seeking the deceased'

2007-04-03 15:58:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 0 0

It's not a complete sentence, more of an introductory clause... but other than that it's fairly correct english but a bit redundant. A dead person is a corpse.

Perhaps you could use:
"Searching for the corpse"
"Seeking the (newly dead/old) corpse"
"S/he searched for the dead body"

or any combonation. The last one is a sentence. ;-)

2007-04-03 16:01:35 · answer #3 · answered by Matia 3 · 0 0

Well dead person kinda means corpse. So that's overkill.

Overkill! HA!

No, I'd just say, "looking for the body," or "looking for the corpse."

"Seeking the dead person's..." is too wordy.

It's a missing dead body. Don't mince words too much.

2007-04-03 15:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0 0

just "seeking the corpse". Otherwise you have a blatant redundancy. The dead person IS a corpse.

2007-04-03 15:56:13 · answer #5 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0 0

pursuing the cadaver

it means looking for the corpse

2007-04-03 15:57:06 · answer #6 · answered by Catholic 14 5 · 0 0

Searching for corpse...

2007-04-03 15:55:58 · answer #7 · answered by Lady 'S' 4 · 0 0

"dead person's corpse" is a bit belt and braces. "the corpse" will do just as well.

2007-04-03 15:55:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

searching for the corpse

2007-04-03 16:00:00 · answer #9 · answered by Chelsea 2 · 0 0

Vocabulary

2007-04-03 15:55:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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