Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.

    Vultures feed on carrion.

    Aas, Kadaver

    па́дальpádalʹ, мертвечи́наmertvečína, дохля́тинаdoxljátina

    па́дальpádalʹ, па́длоpádlo, мертве́ччинаmertvéččyna

    the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food

  2. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Corrupt or horrid matter.

    Verdorbenheit, Sauerei

  3. (figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)Filth, garbage.

  4. (derogatory, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.

  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable, usually)A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.

  6. (countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.

  7. (countable, derogatory, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)A contemptible or worthless person.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Vultures eat carrion.

    Яструби їдять мертвечину. — deniko

  2. A dead deer being pecked by vultures, remains partly eaten by other animals, that sort of rotten meat is called 'carrion'.

    Мертвий олень, подзьобаний стерв'ятниками, рештки частково з'їжені іншими тваринами, ось таке м'ясо, що розкладається називається "падаллю". — ChickenKiev

  3. The crow is a carrion eater.

  4. The hyena is a carrion eater.

    ruГиена — падальщик. — Wezel

  5. Where there is carrion, vultures gather.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
rotting flesh of a dead animal or person:
Русский
By meaning 1
rotting flesh of a dead animal or person:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
rotting flesh of a dead animal or person:
corrupt or horrid matter:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English caroyne (“corpse, carrion, something disgusting”),

The noun is derived from Middle English caroyne (“corpse, carrion, something disgusting”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman careine, caroigne, charogne, and Old French charoigne, Northern Old French caˈronië, caroine, caroigne (modern French charogne), probably from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)) + -ia (suffix forming nouns). Doublet of crone.

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Forms

plural: carrions
Singularcarrion
Pluralcarrions

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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