carrion
n. 死肉, 腐肉 a. 腐肉的, 似腐肉的, 吃腐肉的
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1.
Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
腐肉
不可数Vultures feed on carrion.
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2.
Corrupt or horrid matter.
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Filth, garbage.
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The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.
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A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.
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An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.
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A contemptible or worthless person.
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1.
Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.
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Disgusting, horrid, rotten.
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Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly, mortal, sinful.
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Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike.
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Of or pertaining to death.
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The noun is derived from Middle English caroyne (“corpse, carrion, something disgusting”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman careine, caroigne, charogne, and Old French charoigne, Northern Old French caˈronië, caroine, caroigne (modern French charogne), probably from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)) + -ia (suffix forming nouns). Doublet of crone. The regular modern English form would be *carren, *carron /ˈkæɹən/ (this is found dialectally; see similar kyarn); the intervening /i/ is either a hypercorrection based on the analogy of words like merlin/merlion or, more likely, represents metathesis of the last element of the diphthong in caroyne. The adjective is derived from the noun.
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