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carcasses

noun as in dead body; framework, base structure

noun as in dead body

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This means a decline in habitat quality for grazers like bison and elk, whose winter-killed carcasses grizzlies feed upon.

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

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

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

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

Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

But I reckon we'll have to take these two carcasses along as a sort of corroborative evidence.

Still the host pressed on, though, far back as eye might scan, the carcasses and the crows marked out the line of marching.

I found them asleep in a bunch o' cedars, with our nice tent stretched over their thievin' carcasses.

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

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to carcasses, such as: body, cadaver, corpse, framework, hulk, and remains.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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