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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, carcase [ˈkɑːkəs]

n

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

[from Old French carcasse, of obscure origin]

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) 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!

Translations

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

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

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carcass

n

(= 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

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carcass carcase [ˈkɑːkəs] n (of animal) → carcassa

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carcass

n carcass [ˈkaːkəs]

a dead body, usually animal, not human The carcasses of various animals hung in the butcher's shop. karkas جيفَـه животински труп poražené zvíře ådsel; kadaver der Kadaver κουφάρι res abierta en canal korjus لاشه؛ مردار حیوان carcasse גְוִויָה जानवर का कंकाल truplo, kostur tetem bangkai, daging skrokkur; hræ carcassa （動物の）死体、屠殺体 시체 skerdena kautķermenis daging karkas kadaver, åtsel, skrott tusza carcassa carcasă туша zabité zviera (na bitúnku), telo zabitého zvieraťa, zdochlina kadaver lešina kadaver, djurkropp โครง(สัตว์) gövde; leş 動物的屍体 туша مردہ جانوروں کا ڈھانچہ xác súc vật 动物的尸体