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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)
From the M-W Editors
Examples of carcass in a Sentence
the rusting carcass of an old truck
the carcass of a squirrel that had been run over
Recent Examples of carcass from the Web
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But when officers looked inside the man's garbage can, the bag containing the chicken carcass was no longer there.
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Those finding physical evidence of a cougar such as scat, tracks or a carcass, are asked not to disturb the area and to keep the physical evidence intact.
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En route, a smaller predator, a Great Jagras, ignores Tokuda, attacking one of the resting herbivores instead before slurping its carcass up whole.
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Wimmer and other local organizations are considering pulling one of the carcasses to shore to perform a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death.
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Mattress carcasses, burnt down to the springs, were piled outside the former furniture outlet.
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Insects lay eggs in the carcasses, creating food for mongooses and ibis.
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But their contribution extends well beyond the riverbanks because their carcasses, dragged into the forests by bears, also nourish mosses, trees, insects, songbirds, wolves, and more.
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Researchers like Sumida have found, for example, that dead whales provide a pulse of food to nutrient-starved ocean floors, enabling a specialized ecosystem to flourish on the decaying carcasses.
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Origin and Etymology of carcass
Middle English carcays, from Anglo-French carcas, carkeis
CARCASS Defined for English Language Learners
carcass
playDefinition of carcass for English Language Learners
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: the body of a dead animal
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: a person's body
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: the remaining parts of an old vehicle, structure, etc.
CARCASS Defined for Kids
carcass
playDefinition of carcass for Students
: the body of an animal prepared for use as meat
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