'Carcass' definitions:
Definition of 'carcass'
From: WordNet
noun
The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [syn: carcase, carcass]
Definition of 'Carcass'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'carcass'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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