carcasses

plural of carcass
as in corpses
a dead body the carcass of a squirrel that had been run over

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Recent Examples of carcasses Do not even think of bringing home any carcasses. Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 Deer carcasses and parts should go directly to a landfill or be disposed of through your regular bagged trash pickup. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025 Decades ago, before the advent of modern material technologies, tire carcasses were made from cotton canvas. Wes Siler, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025 However, officials said the officer did not find any bear carcasses or evidence of poaching. Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Blue sharks are known to scavenge on basking shark carcasses, according to John Chisholm, an adjunct scientist at the New England Aquarium. Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 Their decaying carcasses led to the rapid deterioration of water quality and an explosion of harmful bacteria, researchers said. Lauren Liebhaber september 5, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 The years slowly moved away from us, its silence uncanny, but the smell of carcasses was unfathomable. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 Once, a meat processor asked about plugs to keep entrails from sheep carcasses from spilling onto production lines. Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcasses
corpses
Noun
  • The vengeful, eponymous matriarch, played by German actress Maja Tervooren (Maren Eggert), has killed her children and attempts to present their bloodied corpses to her husband Jason, embodied fiercely by French-Senegalese star Nourou Cissokho (Jean-Christophe Folly).
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Brady’s troop of photographers appear to have sometimes moved corpses to compose a better shot.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025

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“Carcasses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcasses. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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