Diener
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdiːnə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Diener is a noun meaning A morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.
Meaning
A morgue worker responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse.
Example Sentences
Before dawn every morning, the dieners would array the day's corpses on the tables in the small, unventilated autopsy room, ready for the medical examiners to splay them out under unforgiving, hot lamps that left patches of dark in the corners.
Word Forms
- dieners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include serving, mortician, underbearer, bearer, gravedigger, undertaker.
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