Definitions for carcasses

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carcasses car·cass

Spelling: [kahr-kuh s]

IPA: /ˈkɑr kəs/

Carcasses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in carcasses (aaccersss).

Definitions for carcasses

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.
8. the dead body of an animal.
9. Slang. the body of a human being, whether living or dead.
10. the body of a slaughtered animal after removal of the offal.
11. anything from which life and power are gone:
12. an unfinished framework or skeleton, as of a house or ship.
13. the body of a furniture piece designed for storage, as a chest of drawers or wardrobe, without the drawers, doors, hardware, etc.
14. 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.).
2. to erect the framework for (a building, ship, etc.).

Origin of carcasses

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

Examples for carcasses

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.

carcasses and wolf-kills are a dangerous food source for young bears and their mothers.

Some bison die during the violence of the rut in August; there is intense competition by bears for these rare summer carcasses.

Guano is also manufactured in Norway from the carcasses of whales.

Sitting on one of the carcasses, a lepero, muffled up, smoked a cigarette.

Mud-caked cars sat under overpasses for months, like carcasses that refused to rot.

It was no small job to skin the carcasses and prepare the meat.

He could see that it was not the same set that were always on the carcasses of the aïs.

“We carved out the carcasses and I preserved the skins,” says Kaye.

And with so many pigs dying, farms have been challenged to try to find hygienic ways to dispose of the carcasses.

My salesman was instructed to inspect the carcasses after they were slaughtered, and to report.