Definitions for carcase

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carcase car·case

Spelling: [kahr-kuh s]

IPA: /ˈkɑr kəs/

Carcase is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in carcase (aaccers).

Definitions for carcase

noun

1. the dead body of an animal.
2. Slang. the body of a human being, whether living or dead.
3. the body of a slaughtered animal after removal of the offal.
4. anything from which life and power are gone:
5. an unfinished framework or skeleton, as of a house or ship.
6. the body of a furniture piece designed for storage, as a chest of drawers or wardrobe, without the drawers, doors, hardware, etc.
7. the inner body of a pneumatic tire, resisting by its tensile strength the pressure of the air within the tire, and protected by the tread and other parts.

verb (used with object)

1. to erect the framework for (a building, ship, etc.).

noun, verb (used with object)

1. carcass.

Origin of carcase

1250-1300; Middle French carcasse Italian carcassa; replacing Middle English carkeis, carkois Anglo-French, corresponding to Medieval Latin carcosium; ultimately origin obscure

Examples for carcase

He hurried, for the freezing process was going on in his carcase, and he was afraid.

If my carcase be good for nothing, I hereby make it over to you.

Not as yet had her fortune become as a carcase to the birds.

When it floated up it drifted away, and Gobila's people secured the carcase.

Let the dogs loose, Martin, that they may worry the carcase; it will do them good.

A few minutes after they caught the first one its carcase was flung overboard.

Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

On cutting the carcase open, Johnson found nothing but water in the stomach.

Strike off this Christian's head, and cast his carcase to the fishes!'