carcass

car·cass  (kärks)

n.

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 once glorious empire.

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

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

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carcass or carcase

Noun

1. the dead body of an animal

2. Informal a person's body: ask that person to move his carcass [Old French carcasse]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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"

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carcass

noun 1. body, remains, corpse, skeleton, dead body, cadaver Medical

noun 2. remains, shell, framework, debris, remnants, hulk

Translations

carcass [ˈkɑːkəs] n [of animal] → res f muerta (= dead body); cadáver m

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carcass [ˈkɑːkəs] n → carcasse f

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carcass [ˈkɑːkəs] n → Kadaver m

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carcass [ˈkɑːkəs] n → carcassa