English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "karkas" is die dooie liggaam van 'n dier, veral een wat groot is en vir vleis of ander produkte geslag is. Die term kan ook gebruik word om te verwys na die oorblyfsels van 'n dooie dier wat weens natuurlike oorsake gevrek het of deur roofdiere doodgemaak is. In sommige kontekste kan "karkas" ook verwys na die liggaam van 'n mens, hoewel hierdie gebruik minder algemeen is. Die woord "karkas" word dikwels gebruik in die konteks van slaghuis en vleisverwerking, sowel as in die velde van veeartsenykundige medisyne en veekunde.

Synonyms

  1. carcase

Sentence Examples

  1. Its head disappeared in a cloud of liquefied skull and brain, and the force of the explosion threw its twitching carcass back.
  2. The glory of its elfin physique had rotted into a hunched, bony carcass with gaping wounds in its stomach.
  3. I managed to get far enough away before the whole crumpled metal carcass went up in a ball of flame, despite the rain that had started teeming down.
  4. They counted to three and shoved the muscular carcass to the side.
  5. To these speeches they gave, of course, their own interpretation fancying, no doubt, that at all events I should come into possession of vast quantities of ready money and provided I paid them all I owed, and a trifle more, in consideration of their services, I dare say they cared very little what became of either my soul or my carcass.
  6. Sometimes they determined to starve me, or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows which would soon dispatch me but again they considered that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
  7. I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding.
  8. By the time he was finished, the man was a badly mauled carcass, the flesh stripped from his arms and legs, his stomach open and stinking, and his ribs splayed and broken.
  9. He set off in the direction of the main pass, dragging the carcass behind him and leaving a ghastly dark trail in his wake.
  10. They stared at its cooling carcass for several minutes, looking at what humanity had morphed into.