carcase

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In a powerful speech, she said the "burnt carcase" of Grenfell Tower had revealed the "true face of Kensington" - poverty, malnutrition and a lack of care.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2017

Statistics from Defra show that household purchases of pork, beef, mutton and lamb carcase meat have halved since the late 70s.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2013

They looked in wonder at the carcase of the fell beast that lay there; and their steeds would not go near.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

According to Dr. Livingstone the same malignant ulcerous imposthumes were produced, if even sound portions were used of the carcase of an animal that had died of this complaint.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Ay; he got little good out of his treachery beyond the saving of his carcase.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)