Usually means: Decaying flesh of dead animals.
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  1. carrion: Merriam-Webster
  2. carrion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carrion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carrion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carrion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carrion, carrion: Wordnik
  7. carrion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Carrion, carrion: Wiktionary
  9. carrion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carrion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carrion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carrion, carrion: Dictionary.com
  13. carrion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Carrion (comics), Carrion (disambiguation), Carrion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Carrion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. carrion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. carrion: Rhymezone
  18. carrion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. carrion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. carrion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. carrion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. carrion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. carrion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carrion (Biology), carrion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carrion (Biology), carrion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carrion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carrion: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Carrion: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable)
noun:  Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
noun:  (figurative) Corrupt or horrid matter.
noun:  (obsolete, figurative) Filth, garbage.
noun:  (obsolete, figurative, derogatory) The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.
noun:  (countable, obsolete)
noun:  A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.
noun:  (figurative) An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.
noun:  (figurative, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
adjective:  (chiefly derogatory) Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.
adjective:  (figurative)
adjective:  Disgusting, horrid, rotten.
adjective:  (derogatory) Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly, mortal, sinful.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to death.
noun:  A surname.

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