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cadavre — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cadaver noun A dead human body, especially one used for medical study or dissection.
  • carcass noun The dead body of an animal.
  • corpse noun A dead body, usually of a person.
  • empty adj Containing nothing; not filled or occupied.
  • kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.

Senses

cadavre is used for these senses in English:

  • cadaver (literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.]
  • carcass The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
  • corpse The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.
  • dead soldier (idiom, slang) An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage.
  • empty (chiefly, in the plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
  • kill The result of killing; that which has been killed.

carcass — full definition

  1. noun The dead body of an animal.
  2. noun The bare frame or shell of a structure, especially one not normally visible.

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