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CARCASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
Synonyms:
carcase; carcass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carcass" is a kind of...):
body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)
Context examples:
Then began as grim a tragedy of existence as was ever played—a sick man that crawled, a sick wolf that limped, two creatures dragging their dying carcasses across the desolation and hunting each other's lives.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of the harness and dragged it to one side.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
And north we travelled with it, ravaging and destroying, flinging the naked carcasses to the shark and salting down the skins so that they might later adorn the fair shoulders of the women of the cities.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Sometimes they determined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It left a great void in him, somewhat akin to hunger, but a void which ached and ached, and which food could not fill, At times, when he paused to contemplate the carcasses of the Yeehats, he forgot the pain of it; and at such times he was aware of a great pride in himself,—a pride greater than any he had yet experienced.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
