See rigor mortis in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"tags": [
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"word": "Leichenstarre"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "nekrikí akampsía",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"tags": [
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "hullamerevség"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "kaku mayat"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "rigor mortis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"tags": [
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"word": "rigor mortis"
},
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"alt": "しごこうちょく",
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "死後硬直"
},
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "rigor mortis"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "kekejuran mayat"
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
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"word": "stężenie pośmiertne"
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "rigiditate cadaverică"
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "тру́пное окочене́ние"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "rigor mortis"
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"code": "es",
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"feminine"
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"word": "rigidez cadavérica"
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"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
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"word": "likstelhet"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
"word": "ölü katılığı"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death",
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"ref": "1964, Israel Segal, Out of the Womb, Times Press, page 177:",
"text": "As Olive was in the kitchen making some tea I asked what kind of louse the host was. “The kind you like to see laying out on a mortuary slab rigor mortising before the introduction.”",
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"ref": "1972, James R. McCready, The Seasons Calling: Haiku & Western-Style Verse, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., →ISBN:",
"text": "Hands / Responding to bold brain waves, / Hiding feelings, / Twiddling facts, / Dating destinies, / Doting on things, / Withering in death traps, / Snapping brittle, / Folding stiffly / When movement ceases / And rigor mortises the joints.",
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"ref": "1996, A. A. Gill, Sap Rising, Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, published 1997, page 131:",
"text": "Fingers were rigor mortised to triggers.",
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"ref": "2000, Stephen Graham Jones, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Fiction Collective Two, →ISBN, page 99:",
"text": "Let the old woman point until her finger rigor mortises and she has to bandage it in the daytime and pretend it got caught between the rocks, grinding corn into meal.",
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"ref": "2009, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, Persea Books, page 189:",
"text": "Forget rigor mortising, clutter of taxidermy.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2017, Albert Bennetti, In a Buffalo Robe, Archway Publishing, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:",
"text": "At McCray’s, we had to lift Pa off Flash in the folded position he had rigor mortised to.",
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