Definition of "carrion" in İngilizce

noun

1. Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.

   • Vultures feed on carrion.

2. Corrupt or horrid matter.

3. Filth, garbage.

4. The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.

5. A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.

6. An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.

7. A contemptible or worthless person.

adjective

1. (chiefly derogatory) Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.

2. Disgusting, horrid, rotten.

3. Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly, mortal, sinful.

4. Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike.

5. Of or pertaining to death.