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car·cass

(kär′kəs)

1. The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for food.

2. The body of a human.

3. Remains from which the substance or character is gone: the carcass of a former empire.

4. A framework or basic structure: the carcass of a burned-out house.

[Middle English carcas, from Anglo-Norman carcais and Medieval Latin carcasium.]

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carcass

(ˈkɑːkəs) or

carcase

1. the dead body of an animal, esp one that has been slaughtered for food, with the head, limbs, and entrails removed

2. informal usually facetious or derogatory a person's body

3. the skeleton or framework of a structure

4. the remains of anything when its life or vitality is gone; shell

[C14: from Old French carcasse, of obscure origin]

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car•cass

(ˈkɑr kəs)

n.

1. the dead body of an animal, esp. of a slaughtered animal after removal of the offal.

2. Slang. the body of a human being, whether living or dead.

3. the physical or structural remnant of something stripped, plundered, or decayed; shell.

4. an unfinished skeleton or framework, as of a house or ship.

[1250–1300; < Anglo-French; Middle French carcasse < Italian carcassa]

syn: See body.

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Noun

carcass - the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

carcase

dead body, body - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake"

carcass

noun

1. body, remains, corpse, skeleton, dead body, cadaver (Medical) A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.

2. remains, shell, framework, debris, remnants, hulk At one end of the camp lies the carcass of an aircraft which crashed in the mountains.

3. (Informal) body, butt (U.S. slang), ass (U.S. slang), arse (taboo slang) Get your carcass back to the boathouse right now!

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carcass

noun

The physical frame of a dead person or animal:

body, cadaver, corpse, remains.

Slang: stiff.

Translations

جيفَـه

poražené zvíře

ådselkadaver

Aas Kadaver Leiche Aase

tetem

skerdena

kautķermenis

åtsel kadaver skrott

ścierwo

туша тушка

zabité zviera

lešinatruplo

gövde leş

动物的尸体

carcass

carcase [ˈkɑːkəs] N

1. [of animal] → res f muerta; (= body) → cuerpo m; (= dead body) → cadáver m
to save one's carcass → salvar el pellejo

2. [of building, vehicle] → carcasa f, armazón m or f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

carcass

[ˈkɑː^rkəs] n [animal] → carcasse fcar chase n → course-poursuite f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

carcass

(= corpse) → Leiche f; (of animal) → Kadaver m, → (Tier)leiche f; (at butcher’s) → Rumpf m; move your fat carcass! (inf) → schwing deinen Arsch weg! (sl)

(of ship, house) → Skelett nt; (= remains) → Überbleibsel pl, → Trümmer pl

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carcass

carcase [ˈkɑːkəs] n (of animal) → carcassa

carcass

(ˈkaːkəs) noun

a dead body, usually animal, not human. The carcasses of various animals hung in the butcher's shop.

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The egregious rustic put to death A bull by stopping of its breath: Disposed the carcass in a shed With fragrant herbs and branches spread.

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The carcass hog was scooped out of the vat by machinery, and then it fell to the second floor, passing on the way through a wonderful machine with numerous scrapers, which adjusted themselves to the size and shape of the animal, and sent it out at the other end with nearly all of its bristles removed.

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The Rhodesians started forward, a cheer upon their lips-a cheer that never was uttered--a cheer that froze in their throats, for at that moment Tarzan placed a foot upon the carcass of his kill and, raising his face to the heavens, gave voice to the weird and terrifying victory cry of the bull ape.

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Nevertheless, on some islands only 360 miles northward of our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a carcass buried in the soil (or if washed into a shallow sea, and covered up with mud) would be preserved perpetually frozen.

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Then the Lion took his stand in front of the carcass and pronounced judgment: The first quarter is for me in my capacity as King of Beasts; the second is mine as arbiter; another share comes to me for my part in the chase; and as for the fourth quarter, well, as for that, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it."

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Without letting any blood from the body, it was immediately carried to a fire which had been kindled near at hand and four savages taking hold of the carcass by its legs, passed it rapidly to and fro in the flames.

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It was impossible for the tawny cat to eat under that hail of missiles--he could but roar and growl and dodge and eventually he was driven away entirely from the carcass of Bara, the deer.

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With livid face he stood, leaning for support against the table; his craven knees wabbling beneath his fat carcass; while his lips were drawn apart against his yellow teeth in a horrid grimace of awful fear.

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Next, hidden under the water of the brook in a netted hand-bag, he brought to light the carcass of a fat wood-pigeon he had snared the previous day.

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Molly then taking a thigh-bone in her hand, fell in among the flying ranks, and dealing her blows with great liberality on either side, overthrew the carcass of many a mighty heroe and heroine.

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"Look ye, here," returned the trapper, pointing to the mutilated carcass of a horse, that lay more than half consumed in a little hollow of the ground; "here may you see the power of a prairie conflagration.

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Then with his foot upon the carcass of Numa, he raised his voice in the awesome victory cry of his savage tribe.