🇬🇧🇪🇸 morgue - morgue : English Lesson

Meaning of "morgue" ("morgue"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A morgue is a very quiet room, usually in a hospital, where people’s bodies are kept cold and safe after they have died, while families decide about the funeral or other important plans.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The broccoli in the back of our fridge looks so lifeless my mom calls it “the vegetable morgue.”

My backpack is a morgue for broken pencils and dried-out markers that will never write again.

The top shelf of the fridge is a morgue for leftovers that everyone is too scared to open now.

Our old family computer should be sent to a tech morgue; every time you click something, it takes a minute to think about it.

Real morgues keep bodies very cold so they stay safe while doctors and families make careful plans, kind of like a serious refrigerator with important grown‑up jobs.

At the hospital she went to the morgue. The morgue door was cold; a nurse opened it and led her inside. On a metal slab in the morgue lay a small folded coat and a quiet face. The morgue light hummed. She touched the coat, wept, then left the morgue with steady steps.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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