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carcasses

NOUN

dead body; framework, base structure

Synonyms

WEAK

body cadaver corpse framework hulk mort remains shell skeleton stiff

NOUN

dead body

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cadaver corpse hulk remains skeleton

STRONG

body framework shell stiff

WEAK

cold meat loved one mort

Example Sentences

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The history of companion robots is littered with e-waste carcasses, including Sony’s Aibo, Ugobe’s sauropod Pleo and the souped-up smart speaker known as Jibo.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

In India, 40 million vultures were reduced to nearly zero by the presence of veterinary painkillers, lethal to vultures, in cattle carcasses.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Then, they’d push the carcasses into piles and burn them.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

One example can be found on whale carcasses that sink to the seafloor.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

But as we circled to receive our share of providence, the fat flanks of the magnificent beasts we’d stalked on the hill shrank to parched sinew, the gristle of drought-starved carcasses.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver