Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to corpse
Participle: corpsed
Gerund: corpsing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | corpse |
| you | corpse |
| he;she;it | corpses |
| we | corpse |
| you | corpse |
| they | corpse |
Perfect
| I | have corpsed |
| you | have corpsed |
| he;she;it | has corpsed |
| we | have corpsed |
| you | have corpsed |
| they | have corpsed |
Past
| I | corpsed |
| you | corpsed |
| he;she;it | corpsed |
| we | corpsed |
| you | corpsed |
| they | corpsed |
Pluperfect
| I | had corpsed |
| you | had corpsed |
| he;she;it | had corpsed |
| we | had corpsed |
| you | had corpsed |
| they | had corpsed |
Future
| I | will corpse |
| you | will corpse |
| he;she;it | will corpse |
| we | will corpse |
| you | will corpse |
| they | will corpse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have corpsed |
| you | will have corpsed |
| he;she;it | will have corpsed |
| we | will have corpsed |
| you | will have corpsed |
| they | will have corpsed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | corpse |
| you | corpse |
| he;she;it | corpse |
| we | corpse |
| you | corpse |
| they | corpse |
Perfect
| I | have corpsed |
| you | have corpsed |
| he;she;it | have corpsed |
| we | have corpsed |
| you | have corpsed |
| they | have corpsed |
Imperfect
| I | corpsed |
| you | corpsed |
| he;she;it | corpsed |
| we | corpsed |
| you | corpsed |
| they | corpsed |
Pluperfect
| I | had corpsed |
| you | had corpsed |
| he;she;it | had corpsed |
| we | had corpsed |
| you | had corpsed |
| they | had corpsed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would corpse |
| you | would corpse |
| he;she;it | would corpse |
| we | would corpse |
| you | would corpse |
| they | would corpse |
Perfect
| I | would have corpsed |
| you | would have corpsed |
| he;she;it | would have corpsed |
| we | would have corpsed |
| you | would have corpsed |
| they | would have corpsed |
Imperative
| you | corpse |
| we | Let's corpse |
| you | corpse |
Verbs conjugated like 'corpse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'corpse'
copse,
chirpse,
chupse,
compose,
cope,
core,
corset,
cose,
cotise,
couple,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English, from earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”).
2. Displaced native English likam and lich. The ⟨p⟩ was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus, and distantly of riff (via Proto-Indo-European).
3. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while acting as dead body.
Sample Sentences
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The rest of the day and the week were spent blocking and learning the lines. The only drama was the predictable one of being ticked off for corpsing. Rupert was quite as bad as me when it came to giggling and the tea-party scene which took place between Rupert, David Parfitt, Piers Flint-Shipman and I, was too much. [1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 94:]
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There were still moments when she would halt suddenly, like an actor stranded in the middle of the stage, lines forgotten, staring goggle-eyed and making fish-mouths...Corpsing: that was the word. [1993, John Banville, Ghosts:]
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Poor Damian corpsed and almost forgot his next lines. The director gave him a terrific lecture, and Alan caught hell from stage management. [1993, Bevan Amberhill, The Bloody Man, Mercury Press, →ISBN:]