Definitions for carcass

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carcass car·cass

Spelling: [kahr-kuh s]

IPA: /ˈkɑr kəs/

Carcass 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 78 anagrams from letters in carcass (aaccrss).

Definitions for carcass

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.).

Origin of carcass

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

Examples for carcass

Cut a soft-wood board core, making it some smaller than outline of carcass.

When the hare is caught the carcass should be given to the young hounds to tear in pieces.

Now and then, a drowned sheep, and once the carcass of a cow, floated past.

He could stuff it inside the carcass of a cow, a donkey, even a person.

Once the bee dies, maggots eat the carcass, turn into zombie flies, and buzz off in search of their next host.

Right by the carcass was another that jumped about in the moonlight in a foolish way.

I like to get the soup going using the turkey bones and carcass.

He then deposits the carcass back in the woods, where Mother Nature takes care of the cleanup.

Where the carcass is the vultures are on deck, or words similar.

Jeb next found himself as an advisor to Barclays, which had picked through the carcass of what was left of Lehman.