Carcass

Noun

 * 1) Body of a dead animal.
 * 2) Body of a dead human.
 * 3) Framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
 * 4)  An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.

Adjectives for Carcass
bloodstained; bovine; flaccid; gross; swarming; fresh-bitten;  floating;  putrefying; snake-bitten; swollen; miserable; mutilated; handsome; lifeless; rascally; partly-devoured; warm; bleeding; frozen; corrupt; bloody.

Verbs for Carcass
bury—; cast out—; drape—; drop—; glut—; hide—; mutilate—; prostrate—; rend—; reveal—; scatter —s; suspend—; tear—; tread upon—; —decays; —decomposes; —disintegrates ; —putrefies ; —rots.

Thesaurus
aerial bomb, anatomy, antipersonnel bomb, appendicular skeleton, ashes, axial skeleton, body, bomb, bombshell, bones, cadaver, carrion, clay, clod, concussion grenade, corpse, corpus, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, depth bomb, depth charge, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, exoskeleton, figure, fire bomb, flesh, food for worms, form, frame, gas grenade, grenade, hand grenade, hulk, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine, late lamented, material body, mere wreck, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, nervous wreck, organic remains, person, petard, physical body, physique, rattletrap, relics, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins, skeleton, soma, stiff, tear-gas grenade, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, time bomb, torso, trunk, wall grenade, wreck

Alternative forms

 * carcase

Etymology
Dated from the late 13th Century ; from carcois:, possibly related to  charcois:.

Synonyms

 * corpse