HOW TO PRONOUNCE
carrion
/ˈkɛɹ.i.ən/
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What does carrion mean?
noun
- Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
- (figuratively) Corrupt or horrid matter.
adjective
- (figuratively) Disgusting, horrid, rotten.
More meanings (10)
proper noun
- A surname.
noun
- (figuratively, obsolete) Filth, garbage.
- (derogatory, figuratively, obsolete) The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.
- (obsolete) A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.
- (figuratively, obsolete) An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.
- (derogatory, figuratively, obsolete) A contemptible or worthless person.
adjective
- (derogatory) Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.
- (derogatory, figuratively) Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly, mortal, sinful.
- (obsolete) Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike.
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to death.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɛɹ.i.ən/
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You’ll ask me why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats.
Mr. Bartlett has observed wolves for me, and has given them carrion, but has never seen them roll on it.
More book examples (3)
Here we had a favourable chance to observe that very common, but always wonderful phenomenon, the gathering of the carrion birds.
Still, most of the Volucella's grubs, at whatever stage of their development, are in the basement of the burrow, among the carrion remains.
He rubbed his cheek against mine in a final caress, and a moment later was speeding through the Carrion Caves toward the outer world.