CARCASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carcase mean? 

• CARCASE (noun)
  The noun CARCASE has 1 sense:

1. the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

  Familiarity information: CARCASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARCASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

carcase; carcass

Hypernyms ("carcase" is a kind of...):

body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)

 Context examples 

You an' me, Henry, when we die, we'll be lucky if we get enough stones over our carcases to keep the dogs off of us.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready dressed as four hundred cooks could provide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The horse did as he was told, and the fox went straight to the lion who lived in a cave close by, and said to him, A little way off lies a dead horse; come with me and you may make an excellent meal of his carcase.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)