Meaning of rigor mortis | Babel Free
Equivalents
Dansk
dødsstivhed
Ελληνικά
νεκρική ακαμψία
Suomi
kuolonkankeus
Magyar
hullamerevség
Italiano
rigor mortis
日本語
死後硬直
한국어
사후경직
Latina
rigor mortis
Nederlands
lijkstijfheid
Polski
stężenie pośmiertne
Română
rigiditate cadaverică
Русский
тру́пное окочене́ние
Svenska
likstelhet
Examples
“Such are the principal phenomena observed during that form⟳ of contraction which I conceive to be analogous to the rigor mortis...”
“Then we carried in poor Austin from the yard. His muscles were set⟳ as hard as a board⟳ in the most exaggerated rigor mortis, while the contraction of the fibres had drawn his mouth into a hard sardonic grin.”
“[…]an unpublished writer who, for all his ambition and flashes of talent, had not been trained in the rigours (nor rigor mortises, for that matter⟳) of a university education.”
“Its wood can neither be carved nor used for the making of the furniture because of the volatility of those characteristics of the nutrients it has sucked which come⟳ from innumerable varieties of rigor mortises.”
“Instead, Tender Buttons destabilizes persistent syntactic arrangements and lexical rigor mortises to assert that “certainly glittering is handsome and convincing,” glittering a radiant process⟳ of flux and variance.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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