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carrions

noun

plural of carrion
as in corpses
the flesh of dead animals Vultures live chiefly on carrion.

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  1. corpses
  2. carcasses
  3. relics
Noun
  • But Holmes was later resurrected—his creator needed some fast cash, yes, but Britain wanted for good crime-solvers, to go by the glut of corpses and killers in Sleuth-hound.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Stellar mass black holes are basically the corpses of dead stars.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of corpses
Noun
  • Cotter was given village board approval this week to continue outsourcing the work and to collect carcasses from private property.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The hook in one panel evokes Chaïm Soutine, who painted slaughterhouses while keeping kosher, fascinated and horrified by the carnival of carcasses that to others had been normalized.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of carcasses
Noun
  • College football artifacts and trophies were replaced with relics of the dimensional life of Godfrey, best known in Georgia as DeKalb County’s winningest football coach and the coach at Southwest DeKalb from 1983-2012.
    — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • People in the Tri-State Area have the chance to get an up-close look at the relics of a saint.
    — Allen Devlin, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of relics
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“Carrions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrions. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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