carcass

noun

car·cass | \ ˈkär-kəs

Definition of carcass

1 : a dead body : corpse especially : the dressed body of a meat animal Butchers trimmed the meat from the carcass.

2 : the living, material, or physical body It was nearly noon when he finally hauled his carcass out of bed.

3 : the decaying or worthless remains of a structure the carcass of an abandoned automobile

4 : the underlying structure or frame of something (as of a piece of furniture)

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the rusting carcass of an old truck the carcass of a squirrel that had been run over

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The company told the regulator a carcass that was awaiting test results had been mistakenly put back into the production line, where it was processed into a variety of products. — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, "California meat-processing company recalls nearly 25,000 pounds of raw beef deemed unsafe to eat," 5 Sep. 2019 There were multiple shark sightings reported over the holiday weekend, including a great white shark dining on a whale carcass off Duxbury Beach. — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, "Beach towns on Cape Cod brace for peak of shark season," 3 Sep. 2019 Instead, there was a carcass of a humpback whale nearby that the shark was after, Riley posted in subsequent pictures. — Fox News, "Real-life 'Jaws'? Massive great white shark almost bites fisherman's boat," 30 Aug. 2019 Biologists from Fish and Game searched for the moose, following a blood trail, but never found a carcass. — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, "A moose charged his 3-year-old son in an Anchorage park. He shot and killed it.," 27 Aug. 2019 To test this theory, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) gave the crabs a pig carcass to feast on. — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, "Was Amelia Earhart Eaten by Crabs?," 26 Aug. 2019 And the one after that had a dead bear carcass in it. — Adrienne Marshall, The Conversation, "Climate change will mean more multiyear snow droughts in the West," 8 Aug. 2019 Hours into the excursion, the men felt a strong tug at one of their lines with a salmon carcass as bait. — Alejandra Reyes-velarde, latimes.com, "Great white shark pulls fishing boat around San Francisco Bay," 15 July 2019 The chain of events that have led the Thunder from Presti’s would-be dynasty into a decomposing carcass of a contender aren’t entirely anyone’s fault. — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, "Opinion: It's time for Thunder to cut ties with Russell Westbrook, start rebuilding," 6 July 2019

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