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carcass

3 definitions • 4 examples
1
the body of a dead animal, especially a large one that is soon to be cut up as meat or eaten by wild animals:

Examples:

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!
2
the frame of an old or broken object, car, ship, etc.:

Examples:

Carcasses of burned-out vehicles lined the roads near the scene of the worst fighting.
3
the body of a dead animal:

Examples:

The carcass of a deer lay near the road.

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