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morgue

/mɔːɡ/noun

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शवगृह, मुर्दाघर

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noun
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    a building or room in a hospital where dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated

    शवगृह, मुर्दाघर

    • The body was taken to the hospital morgue for a post-mortem.
    • The police asked the family to identify the body at the city morgue.
    • The hospital's morgue is in the basement.
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    • Relatives waited quietly outside the morgue.
    • The morgue attendant kept careful records of every body.

    Synonyms mortuary charnel house

≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

mortuary charnel house

AaSpelling

Spelling and pronunciation: morgue, with the French -gue ending, /mɔːɡ/ (not 'morg' or 'morge').

Spelling और pronunciation में morgue, French -gue अंत, /mɔːɡ/ ('morg' या 'morge' गलत है)।

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One-word substitution

One-word substitution, asked very often: a place where dead bodies are kept is a morgue or mortuary; where bodies are burnt a crematorium; where they are buried a cemetery or graveyard; an examination of a dead body an autopsy or post-mortem.

यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: शव रखने की जगह morgue या mortuary; शव जलाने की जगह crematorium; दफ़नाने की जगह cemetery या graveyard; शव की जाँच autopsy या post-mortem।