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• n  a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

• If you wanted to start a newsmagazine (or newspaper) there is one indispensable publisher's item you would be unable to buya morgue.
• Morgue workers inspect the bodies of four slain police officers in a prison, at Cuilapa's morgue, near Guatemala City, Guatemala, February 26, 2007.
• The morgue visits became a bleak ritual of dread and longing for Jassim, who pressed into crowds gathered each afternoon in a long hall where five video monitors hung high on a .

• mortuary
• dead room

News & Articles

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• On the Set: The Killer Chemistry of Rizzoli & Isles
  You know there's a problem when the corpse starts laughing. All morning on the set of Rizzoli & Isles, Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander have been struggling to get through a morgue scene...
  June 11, 2013 - TV Guide
• Williamson County building a new morgue
  MARION — Williamson County officials have decided to build a new morgue instead of renewing a lease on its current building at the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge.
  June 10, 2013 - The Southern Illinoisan
• Southern Ill.'s Williamson County plans new morgue
  Officials in southern Illinois' Williamson County have opted to build a new $266,000 morgue rather than renew a lease on a current site on federal property.
  June 10, 2013 - CBS4 Quad Cities

Quotes

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• Mike Holmgren in International Herald Tribune
  This doesn't have to be a morgue,Seahawks Coach Mike Holmgren said after the game. "That's a good football team, the Chargers. There were a lot of good things that happened today. I'll take it."
• Steve Staunton in ITV.com
  Staunton said: "Judging by the dressing-room the lads are absolutely devastated and it is like a morgue in there. But I wouldn't say it is a bad result. We are still on course and we want to win every game but we are playing two difficult games in...
• Mark Evanier in International Herald Tribune
  My opinion in this case is there was an incomplete transection of the spinal cord and the rest was torn during transportation (to the morgue). After Ms. Clarkson was shot through the spine there were still some nerve fibers that allowed her to... Dr Michael Baden http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baden&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFG3GkCqbsnlDXOSdE52LtETmkprQ FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293311,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEMYcmxUFTB9Ys86FGosYRBBDbd1g Aug 15, 2007 65266 86600 moribund He was the kind of guy people would give an old, moribund idea to and he would come up with a fresh idea for it," said Mark Evanier, a friend.