🇬🇧 Carcass meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A carcass is what’s left of an animal’s body after it has died. It can mean the whole body or just the parts that are left after meat has been removed. Sometimes, it also means the empty shell or frame of something that used to be whole, like an old car or a wrecked building.

The kids found a seashell carcass on the beach and imagined it was from a giant sea creature.

There was a bug carcass in my cereal. Now I eat air for breakfast.

After Halloween, our pumpkin was just a sad, moldy carcass with toothpick arms.

I found a banana peel on the floor. A classic banana carcass crime scene.

The Halloween decorations included a spooky skeleton carcass that glowed in the dark.

A boy on a wet path stopped, staring at a deer carcass under thin snow. A crow hopped on the carcass and pecked; a dog nosed the carcass and whimpered. The boy touched the cold carcass, then ran home. His mother returned with a coat; they covered the carcass with stones, then bowed and left.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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