Definition of "dead body" [dead body]

• A natural object consisting of a dead animal or person (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I called 911 and reported a dead body in the Senton Hotel on Twenty-eighth Street, room sixty-three."
• "I had never seen a dead body in my forty-two years and Vincent Ettin was my first."
• "When the picked up the car, George Anthony — a former police officer — and the impound lot manager both said it smelled like a dead body had been inside."