carcassnoun [ C ]
UK also carcase uk/ˈkɑː.kəs/us/ˈkɑːr.kəs/the body of a dead animal, especially a large one that is soon to be cut up as meat or eaten by wild animals:
Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
slang Move your great carcass (= your body) out of that chair!
the frame of an old or broken object, car, ship, etc.:
Carcasses of burned-out vehicles lined the roads near the scene of the worst fighting.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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