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carcass 音标拼音: [k'ɑrkəs] n. 尸体 屍体 carcass n 1: the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [ synonym: { carcase}, { carcass}] Carcass \ Car" cass\ ( k[ aum] r" kas), n.; pl. { Carcasses}. [ Written also { carcase}.] [ F. carcasse, fr. It. carcassa, fr. L. caro flesh capsa chest, box, case. Cf. { Carnal}, { Case} a sheath.] 1. A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast. [ 1913 Webster] He turned to see the carcass of the lion. -- Judges xiv. 8. [ 1913 Webster] This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. " To pamper his own carcass." -- South. [ 1913 Webster] Lovely her face; was ne' er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. -- Oldham. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. [ 1913 Webster] A rotten carcass of a boat. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Mil.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc. [ 1913 Webster] A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. -- W. Iving. [ 1913 Webster] 76 Moby Thesaurus words for " carcass": aerial bomb, anatomy, antipersonnel bomb, appendicular skeleton, ashes, axial skeleton, body, bomb, bombshell, bones, cadaver, carrion, clay, clod, concussion grenade, corpse, corpus, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, depth bomb, depth charge, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, exoskeleton, figure, fire bomb, flesh, food for worms, form, frame, gas grenade, grenade, hand grenade, hulk, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine, late lamented, material body, mere wreck, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, nervous wreck, organic remains, person, petard, physical body, physique, rattletrap, relics, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins, skeleton, soma, stiff, tear- gas grenade, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, time bomb, torso, trunk, wall grenade, wreck
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