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Noun
мертве́ц • (mertvéc) m anim (genitive мертвеца́, nominative plural мертвецы́, genitive plural мертвецо́в)
- corpse, cadaver, dead man, dead body
1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 24”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:Па́вел Петро́вич помочи́л себе́ лоб одеколо́ном и закры́л глаза́. Освещённая я́рким дневны́м све́том, его́ краси́вая, исхуда́лая голова́ лежа́ла на бе́лой поду́шке, как голова́ мертвеца́… Да он и был мертве́ц.- Pável Petróvič pomočíl sebé lob odekolónom i zakrýl glazá. Osveščónnaja járkim dnevným svétom, jevó krasívaja, isxudálaja golová ležála na béloj podúške, kak golová mertvecá… Da on i byl mertvéc.
- Pavel Petrovich moistened his forehead with eau de Cologne and closed his eyes. Lit up by the brilliant daylight, his beautiful emaciated head lay on the white pillow like the head of a dead man . . . And indeed he was a dead man.
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