Translation
body
Examples
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His body was strong and healthy.
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The illness attacked the whole body.
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She trembled with her whole body.
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The soul is more important than the body.
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They found the body by the river.
is the physical body, and its natural partner in older literature is , the soul, since a great deal of the early corpus is translated moral and religious writing. The adjective korpa means bodily or physical as opposed to spiritual. A dead body is still in ordinary speech, though is the exact word when the context is medical or legal. The word does not stretch to organisations the way English "body" does; a committee is and a governing body is .
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