excarnation
excarnation · excarnations
The act of removing fleshThe act of removing flesh.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of removing flesh.
(countable, uncountable)The burial practice of removing (or causing to be removed) the flesh and organs of the dead, leaving only the bones, especially the practice of laying out corpses for vultures to strip bare.
Forms
plural: excarnations| Singular | excarnation |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedexcarnate
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable