carcase

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In a powerful speech, she said the "burnt carcase" of Grenfell Tower had revealed the "true face of Kensington" - poverty, malnutrition and a lack of care.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2017

Statistics from Defra show that household purchases of pork, beef, mutton and lamb carcase meat have halved since the late 70s.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2013

They looked in wonder at the carcase of the fell beast that lay there; and their steeds would not go near.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

A whale about 50 feet in length also came close under our quarter, and only retreated after he had been repeatedly fired upon and had received a number of balls in his carcase.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

They brought fish with them, and the carcase of a reindeer, and begged, in their strange but musical labial language, for blankets and tobacco.

From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Stables, Gordon